AMD Radeon HD 6770M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6770M 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon HD 6770M

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6770M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 45% higher core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 500 MHz
4.4x more texture fill rate: 17.4 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
30x more pipelines: 480 vs 16
17.4x better floating-point performance: 696.0 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
2.3x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 1600 MHz
7.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 964 vs 122
3.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 572 vs 172

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 January 2011 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	17.4 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	480 vs 16
Floating-point performance	696.0 gflops vs 40 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	964 vs 122
PassMark - G2D Mark	572 vs 172

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Around 75% lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 35 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 35 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6770M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

964

122

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

572

172

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6770M	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
PassMark - G3D Mark	964	122
PassMark - G2D Mark	572	172
Geekbench - OpenCL	8338
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	4.817
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	234.842
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.393
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	15.475
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	33.71
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3044
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3348
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3044
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3348
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6770M	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Whistler	G96
Launch date	4 January 2011	3 June 2008
Place in performance rating	985	986
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	725 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	696.0 gflops	40 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	480	16
Texture fill rate	17.4 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	314 million
CUDA cores		16
Gigaflops		60
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized	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	57.6 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0