ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4100 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4100 IGP and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4100 IGP

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
  • 13x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 6.025 vs 0.465
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 November 2009 vs 21 February 2008
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 6.025 vs 0.465

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

  • 4.6x more core clock speed: 1625 MHz vs 350 MHz
Core clock speed 1625 MHz vs 350 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4100 IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
6.025
0.465
Name ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4100 IGP NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 6.025 0.465
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 512.106
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.497
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 19.201
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 83.628
PassMark - G3D Mark 488
PassMark - G2D Mark 46
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3161
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3161
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 127
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 127

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4100 IGP NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale Tesla
Code name RS880 G94
Launch date 1 November 2009 21 February 2008
Place in performance rating 1589 1591
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $179
Price now $39.99
Value for money (0-100) 23.72

Technical info

Core clock speed 350 MHz 1625 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 65 nm
Transistor count 181 million 505 million
CUDA cores 64
Floating-point performance 208 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C
Pipelines 64
Texture fill rate 20.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 96 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video, HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 6-pin
Bus support 16x PCI-E 2.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length 9" (22.9 cm)
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 10.1 10.0
OpenGL 3.3 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 900 MHz
Memory type GDDR3

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
SLI