NVIDIA GeForce2 MX PCI vs ATI Radeon SDR

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce2 MX PCI and ATI Radeon SDR 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 MX PCI

ATI Radeon SDR

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce2 MX PCI

Around 5% higher core clock speed: 175 MHz vs 166 MHz

Core clock speed	175 MHz vs 166 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon SDR

Around 42% higher texture fill rate: 996 MTexel / s vs 700 MTexel / s

Texture fill rate	996 MTexel / s vs 700 MTexel / s

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce2 MX PCI	ATI Radeon SDR
Essentials
Architecture	Celsius	Rage 6
Code name	NV11 A2	Rage 6
Launch date	28 June 2000	1 June 2000
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	175 MHz	166 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	180 nm	180 nm
Texture fill rate	700 MTexel / s	996 MTexel / s
Transistor count	20 million	30 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		23 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x VGA	1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	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	664 MB / s	2.656 GB / s
Memory bus width	32 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	166 MHz	166 MHz
Memory type	SDR	SDR