VIA Castle Rock vs NVIDIA GeForce4 Go 4200

Comparative analysis of VIA Castle Rock and NVIDIA GeForce4 Go 4200 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support.

VIA Castle Rock

NVIDIA GeForce4 Go 4200

Differences

Reasons to consider the VIA Castle Rock

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

Launch date	1 January 2003 vs 14 November 2002

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 Go 4200

100x more core clock speed: 200 MHz vs 2 MHz

Core clock speed	200 MHz vs 2 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	VIA Castle Rock	NVIDIA GeForce4 Go 4200
Essentials
Code name	CLE266	NV28 A1
Launch date	1 January 2003	14 November 2002
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Architecture		Kelvin
Technical info
Core clock speed	2 MHz	200 MHz
Pipelines	1
Manufacturing process technology		150 nm
Texture fill rate		1.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count		36 million
Memory
Shared memory	yes
Maximum RAM amount		64 MB
Memory bandwidth		3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		400 MHz
Memory type		DDR
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		AGP 8x
API support
DirectX		8.1
OpenGL		1.3