NVIDIA GeForce4 MX + nForce2 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce4 MX + nForce2 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 + nForce2

ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX + nForce2

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later

Launch date	1 October 2002 vs 1 September 2002

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 240 MHz vs 200 MHz

Core clock speed	240 MHz vs 200 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX + nForce2
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

Name	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX + nForce2	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
PassMark - G2D Mark		111
PassMark - G3D Mark		3

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce4 MX + nForce2	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
Essentials
Architecture	Celsius	Rage 7
Code name	Crush17	M9
Launch date	1 October 2002	1 September 2002
Place in performance rating	not rated	1348
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	200 MHz	240 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Transistor count	29 million	36 million
Boost clock speed		240 MHz
Pipelines		4
Texture fill rate		960 MTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	AGP 4x
API support
DirectX	8.0	8.1
OpenGL	1.3	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		64 MB
Memory bandwidth		3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		200 Bit
Memory clock speed		400 MHz
Memory type		128
Shared memory		0