NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go vs ATI Radeon 8500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go and ATI Radeon 8500 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

ATI Radeon 8500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
363.6x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 147 vs 146

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	6 February 2002 vs 14 August 2001
Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	147 vs 146

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 8500

Around 38% higher core clock speed: 275 MHz vs 200 MHz
2x more maximum memory size: 64 MB vs 32 MB
Around 38% higher memory clock speed: 550 MHz vs 400 MHz
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	275 MHz vs 200 MHz
Maximum memory size	64 MB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	550 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	7 vs 3

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 8500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

147

146

Name	NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go	ATI Radeon 8500
PassMark - G3D Mark	3	7
PassMark - G2D Mark	147	146

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go	ATI Radeon 8500
Essentials
Architecture	Celsius	Rage 7
Code name	NV17 A5	R200
Launch date	6 February 2002	14 August 2001
Place in performance rating	1120	1121
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	190 MHz
Core clock speed	200 MHz	275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	2
Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s	2.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	29 million	60 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		23 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	8.0	8.1
OpenGL	1.3	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	3.2 GB / s	8.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	200 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	550 MHz
Memory type	32	DDR