AMD FirePro V4900 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro V4900 and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD FirePro V4900

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro V4900

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 60% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 500 MHz
4.8x more texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
30x more pipelines: 480 vs 16
19.2x better floating-point performance: 768.0 gflops vs 40 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
2.5x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
8.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 990 vs 122
Around 81% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 312 vs 172

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 November 2011 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	480 vs 16
Floating-point performance	768.0 gflops vs 40 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	990 vs 122
PassMark - G2D Mark	312 vs 172

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

3.8x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro V4900
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

990

122

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

312

172

Name	AMD FirePro V4900	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
PassMark - G3D Mark	990	122
PassMark - G2D Mark	312	172
Geekbench - OpenCL	1928
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	6.303
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	392.237
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.597
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	17.874
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	72.818
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1747
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3753
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	7745
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1747
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3753
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	7745

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD FirePro V4900	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Turks	G96
Launch date	1 November 2011	3 June 2008
Place in performance rating	979	982
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	768.0 gflops	40 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	480	16
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	314 million
CUDA cores		16
Gigaflops		60
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	163 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0