ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 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

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9600

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later

Launch date	1 June 2004 vs 23 October 2003

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

Around 42% higher core clock speed: 425 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 42% higher texture fill rate: 1.7 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 500 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 173 vs 172
Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 41 vs 36

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	425 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.7 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	500 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	173 vs 172
PassMark - G3D Mark	41 vs 36

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

172

173

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700
PassMark - G2D Mark	172	173
PassMark - G3D Mark	36	41

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8	Rankine
Code name	M10	NV36 A1
Launch date	1 June 2004	23 October 2003
Place in performance rating	990	993
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	300 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	4
Texture fill rate	1.2 GTexel / s	1.7 GTexel / s
Transistor count	76 million	82 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		25 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	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	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	3.2 GB / s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	300 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	128 / 64	DDR
Shared memory	0