NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 PCI vs Intel Extreme Graphics 2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 PCI and Intel Extreme Graphics 2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 PCI

Intel Extreme Graphics 2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 PCI

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 250 MHz vs 200 MHz

Core clock speed	250 MHz vs 200 MHz

Reasons to consider the Intel Extreme Graphics 2

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm

Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 PCI	Intel Extreme Graphics 2
Essentials
Architecture	Celsius	Generation 2.0
Code name	NV18 C1	Springdale
Launch date	14 December 2003	3 December 2003
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	250 MHz	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s
Transistor count	29 million
Boost clock speed		266 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	8.0	7.0
OpenGL	1.3	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	2.656 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	332 MHz
Memory type	DDR
Shared memory		0