AMD Radeon HD 6350 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6350 and NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS 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 - T-Rex (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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6350

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 6.3x more core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 103 MHz
  • 2.5x more pipelines: 80 vs 32
  • Around 51% better floating-point performance: 104 gflops vs 68.8 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 5% lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 20 Watt
  • Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 141 vs 131
  • 2.9x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 171 vs 58
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 February 2011 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed 650 MHz vs 103 MHz
Pipelines 80 vs 32
Floating-point performance 104 gflops vs 68.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt vs 20 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 141 vs 131
PassMark - G2D Mark 171 vs 58

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

  • Around 32% higher texture fill rate: 6.88 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1798 vs 1717
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1798 vs 1717
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 6.88 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1798 vs 1717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1798 vs 1717

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6350
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
141
131
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
171
58
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1717
1798
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1717
1798
Name AMD Radeon HD 6350 NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark 141 131
PassMark - G2D Mark 171 58
Geekbench - OpenCL 2872
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.154
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 10.131
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 381
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 734
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1717 1798
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 381
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 734
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1717 1798

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6350 NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Code name Cedar G96
Launch date 7 February 2011 3 June 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $23
Place in performance rating 1540 1543
Price now $50.99
Type Desktop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 5.17

Technical info

Core clock speed 650 MHz 103 MHz
Floating-point performance 104 gflops 68.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 80 32
Texture fill rate 5.2 GTexel / s 6.88 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt 20 Watt
Transistor count 292 million 314 million
CUDA cores 32

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-II
Length 168 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 512 MB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 6.4 GB / s 25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

PCI-E 2.0