ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 30 vs 13

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 June 2004 vs 6 March 2003
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	30 vs 13

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600

Around 30% higher core clock speed: 325 MHz vs 250 MHz
Around 30% higher texture fill rate: 1.3 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 550 MHz vs 486 MHz
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 168 vs 166

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	325 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.3 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	550 MHz vs 486 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	168 vs 166

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9550
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

166

168

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9550	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600
PassMark - G2D Mark	166	168
PassMark - G3D Mark	30	13

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9550	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 9	Rankine
Code name	M12	NV31 A1
Launch date	1 June 2004	6 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1052	1053
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	210 MHz
Core clock speed	250 MHz	325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	4
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s	1.3 GTexel / s
Transistor count	76 million	80 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		37 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	AGP 8x
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0	9.0a
OpenGL	2.0	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	3.89 GB / s	8.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	183 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	486 MHz	550 MHz
Memory type	64	DDR
Shared memory	no