AMD Radeon HD 7670M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7670M and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 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), 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7670M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • 5x more pipelines: 480 vs 96
  • 2.2x better floating-point performance: 576.0 gflops vs 264 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • 5.3x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 105 Watt
  • 5.3x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 384 MB
  • 2.3x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • Around 44% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 473 vs 328
  • Around 55% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3341 vs 2160
  • Around 55% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3341 vs 2160
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 17 February 2012 vs 28 April 2008
Pipelines 480 vs 96
Floating-point performance 576.0 gflops vs 264 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt vs 105 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 384 MB
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 473 vs 328
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3341 vs 2160
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3341 vs 2160

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

  • 2.3x more core clock speed: 1375 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • Around 83% higher texture fill rate: 26.4 billion / sec vs 14.4 GTexel / s
  • Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 97 vs 91
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1375 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 26.4 billion / sec vs 14.4 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 97 vs 91

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7670M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
473
328
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
91
97
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3341
2160
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3341
2160
Name AMD Radeon HD 7670M NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO
PassMark - G3D Mark 473 328
PassMark - G2D Mark 91 97
Geekbench - OpenCL 1404
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 2.47
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 210.901
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1228
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2194
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3341 2160
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1228
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2194
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3341 2160
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7670M NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Code name Thames G92
Launch date 17 February 2012 28 April 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $629.99 $49.99
Place in performance rating 1402 1405
Price now $629.99 $49.99
Type Laptop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 1.48 13.43

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz 1375 MHz
Floating-point performance 576.0 gflops 264 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 480 96
Texture fill rate 14.4 GTexel / s 26.4 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt 105 Watt
Transistor count 716 million 754 million
CUDA cores 96
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized
Bus support 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 2 GB 384 MB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type DDR3, (GDDR5) GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA