AMD Radeon HD 6470M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6470M and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6470M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • 2.5x more pipelines: 160 vs 64
  • Around 8% better floating-point performance: 224 gflops vs 208 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 78% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 107 vs 47
  • 4.9x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 2.282 vs 0.465
  • 9.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1251 vs 127
  • 9.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1251 vs 127
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 January 2011 vs 21 February 2008
Pipelines 160 vs 64
Floating-point performance 224 gflops vs 208 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 900 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 107 vs 47
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 2.282 vs 0.465
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1251 vs 127
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1251 vs 127

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

  • 2.3x more core clock speed: 1625 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • 3.7x more texture fill rate: 20.8 billion / sec vs 5.6 GTexel / s
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 487 vs 227
  • Around 68% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3161 vs 1881
  • Around 68% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3161 vs 1881
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1625 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate 20.8 billion / sec vs 5.6 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 487 vs 227
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3161 vs 1881
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3161 vs 1881

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6470M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
227
487
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
107
47
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2.282
0.465
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1251
127
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1881
3161
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1251
127
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1881
3161
Name AMD Radeon HD 6470M NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 227 487
PassMark - G2D Mark 107 47
Geekbench - OpenCL 735
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 2.282 0.465
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 112.819
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.276
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 5.671
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 23.025
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1251 127
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1881 3161
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1251 127
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1881 3161

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6470M NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Code name Seymour G94
Launch date 4 January 2011 21 February 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $569.99 $179
Place in performance rating 1583 1586
Price now $569.99 $39.99
Type Laptop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 0.72 23.72

Technical info

Core clock speed 700 MHz 1625 MHz
Floating-point performance 224 gflops 208 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 160 64
Texture fill rate 5.6 GTexel / s 20.8 billion / sec
Transistor count 370 million 505 million
CUDA cores 64
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 96 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video, HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support 16x PCI-E 2.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length 9" (22.9 cm)
SLI options 2-way
Supplementary power connectors 6-pin

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.4 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s 57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 900 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
SLI