NVIDIA GeForce2 MX + nForce 220 vs NVIDIA Quadro DCC

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce2 MX + nForce 220 and NVIDIA Quadro DCC 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 + nForce 220

NVIDIA Quadro DCC

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro DCC

Around 14% higher core clock speed: 200 MHz vs 175 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 175 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm vs 180 nm

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce2 MX + nForce 220	NVIDIA Quadro DCC
Essentials
Architecture	Celsius	Kelvin
Code name	Crush11	NV20 A5
Launch date	4 June 2001	14 May 2001
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	175 MHz	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	180 nm	150 nm
Transistor count	20 million	57 million
Texture fill rate		800 MTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	7.0	8.0
OpenGL	1.2	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		64 MB
Memory bandwidth		3.68 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		230 MHz
Memory type		SDR