AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 10 month(s) later
2.9x more core clock speed: 300 MHz vs 103 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 65 nm
Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 20 Watt

Launch date	23 April 2018 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed	300 MHz vs 103 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 20 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	880
PassMark - G3D Mark		131
PassMark - G2D Mark		58
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1798
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1798

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	Tesla
Code name	Raven	G96
Launch date	23 April 2018	3 June 2008
Place in performance rating	1545	1542
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1011 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	103 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	4,940 million	314 million
CUDA cores		32
Floating-point performance		68.8 gflops
Pipelines		32
Texture fill rate		6.88 GTexel / s
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_1)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1600 MHz
Memory type		GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
PCI-E 2.0