AMD Radeon HD 6480G vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6480G and NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6480G

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 3.7x more core clock speed: 444 MHz vs 120 MHz
  • 7.5x more pipelines: 240 vs 32
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 65 nm
  • 2.8x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 81 vs 29
  • Around 88% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 257 vs 137
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1696 vs 1679
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1696 vs 1679
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 15 June 2011 vs 4 June 2008
Core clock speed 444 MHz vs 120 MHz
Pipelines 240 vs 32
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 81 vs 29
PassMark - G3D Mark 257 vs 137
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1696 vs 1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1696 vs 1679

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1140 vs 1082
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1140 vs 1082
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1140 vs 1082
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1140 vs 1082

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6480G
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
81
29
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
257
137
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1082
1140
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1082
1140
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1696
1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1696
1679
Name AMD Radeon HD 6480G NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
Geekbench - OpenCL 670
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 592
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 592
PassMark - G2D Mark 81 29
PassMark - G3D Mark 257 137
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1082 1140
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1082 1140
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1696 1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1696 1679

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6480G NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

Essentials

Architecture Terascale 2 Tesla
Code name Llano G96
Launch date 15 June 2011 4 June 2008
Place in performance rating 1523 1525
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 444 MHz 120 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 240 32
Transistor count 1000 Million 314 million
CUDA cores 32
Floating-point performance 80 gflops
Texture fill rate 8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt

API support

DirectX 11 10.0
OpenGL 3.3

Memory

Shared memory 1 0
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR2, GDDR3

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-II
Laptop size medium sized
Supplementary power connectors None

Technologies

CUDA
PCI-E 2.0