In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce 4 MX 440 are very slightly better than the Nvidia GeForce2 GTS.

The 4 MX was released over a year more recently than the GeForce2 GTS, and so the 4 MX is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the GeForce2 GTS.

Both GPUs exhibit very poor performance, so rather than upgrading from one to the other you should consider looking at more powerful GPUs. Neither of these will be able to run the latest games in any playable way.

The 4 MX has 96 MB more video memory than the GeForce2 GTS, so is likely to be slightly better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. This is supported by the fact that the 4 MX also has superior memory performance overall.

The 4 MX has 0.5 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GeForce2 GTS, which means that the memory performance of the 4 MX is marginally better than the GeForce2 GTS.

The GeForce2 GTS has 4 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce 4 MX 440 has 2. The two GPUs are based on different architectures, but deliver an equivalent shader performance. To compare, we must continue to look at the memory bandwidth, Texture and Pixel Rates. In this case, we sadly do not have enough data in this area to complete the comparison.