ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
Around 4% higher core clock speed: 337 MHz vs 325 MHz
Around 4% higher texture fill rate: 1.348 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 25 vs 12

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 February 2004 vs 6 March 2003
Core clock speed	337 MHz vs 325 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.348 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	25 vs 12

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

Around 34% higher memory clock speed: 650 MHz vs 486 MHz
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 138 vs 137

Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed	650 MHz vs 486 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	138 vs 137

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

137

138

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark	25	12
PassMark - G2D Mark	137	138

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8	Rankine
Code name	M10	NV34 A2
Launch date	13 February 2004	6 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1176	1177
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$149
Technical info
Core clock speed	337 MHz	325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1.348 GTexel / s	1.3 GTexel / s
Transistor count	76 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Length		171 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0	9.0a
OpenGL	2.0	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	7.78 GB / s	10.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	486 MHz	650 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR