NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go vs ATI Mobility Radeon

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go and ATI Mobility Radeon videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports.

NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go

ATI Mobility Radeon

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 150 nm vs 180 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 64 MB vs 16 MB

Launch date	1 February 2002 vs 1 December 2001
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size	64 MB vs 16 MB

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go	ATI Mobility Radeon
Essentials
Launch date	1 February 2002	1 December 2001
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Architecture		Rage 6
Code name		M6
Technical info
Boost clock speed	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	180 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	2 Watt
Transistor count	27 Million	30 million
Core clock speed		144 MHz
Texture fill rate		432 MTexel / s
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Laptop size	medium sized
Interface		AGP 4x
API support
DirectX	DDR	7.0
OpenGL		1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	16 MB
Memory type	32 / 64 / 128	DDR
Shared memory	0
Memory bandwidth		2.304 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		288 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs