AMD Radeon E9550 MXM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E9550 MXM and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE 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: 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon E9550 MXM

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E9550 MXM

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 8 month(s) later
96x more pipelines: 2304 vs 24
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 65 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 256 MB

Launch date	27 September 2016 vs 9 January 2008
Pipelines	2304 vs 24
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 256 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

3.8x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 95 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 95 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E9550 MXM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Name	AMD Radeon E9550 MXM	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
Geekbench - OpenCL	36624
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	112.64
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1474.586
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	9.473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	96.618
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	507.291
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	6622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3597
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3208
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	6622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3597
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3208
PassMark - G2D Mark		320
PassMark - G3D Mark		104

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon E9550 MXM	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0
Code name	Ellesmere	MCP79Mx + NB9M
Launch date	27 September 2016	9 January 2008
Place in performance rating	501	504
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1266 MHz
Core clock speed	1120 MHz
Floating-point performance	5,834 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	2304	24
Texture fill rate	182.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	5,700 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory		1