ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO 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 9600 PRO

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 42% higher core clock speed: 333 MHz vs 235 MHz
4.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 43 vs 9

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 June 2004 vs 17 March 2003
Core clock speed	333 MHz vs 235 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	43 vs 9

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

705.7x more texture fill rate: 940 MTexel / s vs 1.332 GTexel / s
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 166 vs 163

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	940 MTexel / s vs 1.332 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	166 vs 163

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

163

166

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT
PassMark - G2D Mark	163	166
PassMark - G3D Mark	43	9

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8	Rankine
Code name	M10	NV31 A1
Launch date	1 June 2004	17 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1038	1039
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	333 MHz	235 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	1.332 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 8x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0	9.0a
OpenGL	2.0	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR