NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS PRO vs ATI Radeon DDR

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS PRO and ATI Radeon DDR videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS PRO

ATI Radeon DDR

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS PRO

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 200 MHz vs 166 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 150 nm vs 180 nm
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 400 MHz vs 332 MHz

Core clock speed	200 MHz vs 166 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm vs 180 nm
Memory clock speed	400 MHz vs 332 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon DDR

622.5x more texture fill rate: 996 MTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	996 MTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS PRO	ATI Radeon DDR
Essentials
Architecture	Celsius	Rage 6
Code name	NV15 A5	Rage 6
Launch date	26 April 2000	1 April 2000
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	200 MHz	166 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	180 nm
Texture fill rate	1.6 GTexel / s	996 MTexel / s
Transistor count	25 million	30 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		23 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x VGA, 2x S-Video	1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	7.0	7.0
OpenGL	1.2	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	5.31 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	332 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR