AMD Radeon R5 Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 Graphics 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: 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon R5 Graphics

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 Graphics

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 94% higher core clock speed: 200 MHz vs 103 MHz
Around 76% higher texture fill rate: 12.13 GTexel / s vs 6.88 GTexel / s
8x more pipelines: 256 vs 32
5.6x better floating-point performance: 388.1 gflops vs 68.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 20 Watt
Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1915 vs 1798
Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1915 vs 1798

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	31 May 2016 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed	200 MHz vs 103 MHz
Texture fill rate	12.13 GTexel / s vs 6.88 GTexel / s
Pipelines	256 vs 32
Floating-point performance	388.1 gflops vs 68.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 20 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1915 vs 1798
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1915 vs 1798

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 Graphics
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1915

1798

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1915

1798

Name	AMD Radeon R5 Graphics	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
Geekbench - OpenCL	2981
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	6.331
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	119.568
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.543
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	12.649
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	42.459
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	966
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1363
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1915	1798
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	966
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1363
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1915	1798
PassMark - G3D Mark		131
PassMark - G2D Mark		58

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R5 Graphics	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Tesla
Code name	Wani	G96
Launch date	31 May 2016	3 June 2008
Place in performance rating	1551	1548
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	800 MHz
Core clock speed	200 MHz	103 MHz
Floating-point performance	388.1 gflops	68.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	256	32
Texture fill rate	12.13 GTexel / s	6.88 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	2,410 million	314 million
CUDA cores		32
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	MXM-II
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Memory type	System Shared	GDDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1600 MHz
Shared memory		0
Technologies
PCI-E 2.0