ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT 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 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 6% higher core clock speed: 250 MHz vs 235 MHz
Around 22% higher memory clock speed: 486 MHz vs 400 MHz
3.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 30 vs 9

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 June 2004 vs 17 March 2003
Core clock speed	250 MHz vs 235 MHz
Memory clock speed	486 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	30 vs 9

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

940x more texture fill rate: 940 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB

Texture fill rate	940 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

166

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9550	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT
PassMark - G2D Mark	166	166
PassMark - G3D Mark	30	9

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9550	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 9	Rankine
Code name	M12	NV31 A1
Launch date	1 June 2004	17 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1037	1038
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	210 MHz
Core clock speed	250 MHz	235 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	4
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s	940 MTexel / s
Transistor count	76 million	80 million
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	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	183 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	486 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	64	DDR
Shared memory	no