ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 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 9600 PRO

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
Around 45% higher core clock speed: 333 MHz vs 230 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 140 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB
2x more memory clock speed: 400 MHz vs 200 MHz
Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 163 vs 152
5.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 43 vs 8

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 June 2004 vs 17 March 2004
Core clock speed	333 MHz vs 230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 140 nm
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	400 MHz vs 200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	163 vs 152
PassMark - G3D Mark	43 vs 8

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

690.7x more texture fill rate: 920 MTexel / s vs 1.332 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	920 MTexel / s vs 1.332 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

163

152

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
PassMark - G2D Mark	163	152
PassMark - G3D Mark	43	8

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8	Rankine
Code name	M10	NV34 B1
Launch date	1 June 2004	17 March 2004
Place in performance rating	1069	1132
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$36.99
Price now		$36.99
Value for money (0-100)		0.30
Technical info
Core clock speed	333 MHz	230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	140 nm
Texture fill rate	1.332 GTexel / s	920 MTexel / 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		152 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0	9.0a
OpenGL	2.0	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	200 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR