NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200-8X vs ATI Radeon 8500 LE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200-8X and ATI Radeon 8500 LE 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 Ti 4200-8X

ATI Radeon 8500 LE

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 8500 LE

2x more memory clock speed: 500 MHz vs 250 MHz

Memory clock speed	500 MHz vs 250 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200-8X	ATI Radeon 8500 LE
Essentials
Architecture	Kelvin	Rage 7
Code name	NV28 A2	R200
Launch date	6 February 2002	4 February 2002
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	250 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	2 GTexel / s	2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	36 million	60 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		23 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	8.1	8.1
OpenGL	1.3	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	4 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	250 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	SDR	DDR