NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS vs ATI Radeon 7200 64 MB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS and ATI Radeon 7200 64 MB 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

ATI Radeon 7200 64 MB

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS

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

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

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 7200 64 MB

622.5x more texture fill rate: 996 MTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 64 MB vs 32 MB

Texture fill rate	996 MTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	64 MB vs 32 MB

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS	ATI Radeon 7200 64 MB
Essentials
Architecture	Celsius	Rage 6
Code name	NV15 A5	R100
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	1x VGA, 1x S-Video
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	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	5.31 GB / s	5.31 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	332 MHz	332 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR