NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440-8x vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440-8x and ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440-8x

ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440-8x

Around 15% higher core clock speed: 275 MHz vs 240 MHz
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 500 MHz vs 400 MHz

Core clock speed	275 MHz vs 240 MHz
Memory clock speed	500 MHz vs 400 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

872.7x more texture fill rate: 960 MTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 64 MB vs 32 MB

Texture fill rate	960 MTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	64 MB vs 32 MB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440-8x
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

Name	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440-8x	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
PassMark - G2D Mark		111
PassMark - G3D Mark		3

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440-8x	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
Essentials
Architecture	Celsius	Rage 7
Code name	NV18 A2	M9
Launch date	25 September 2002	1 September 2002
Place in performance rating	not rated	1317
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	275 MHz	240 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1.1 GTexel / s	960 MTexel / s
Transistor count	29 million	36 million
Boost clock speed		240 MHz
Pipelines		4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
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	2 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	32 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR	128
Shared memory		0