ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
2.2x lower typical power consumption: 9 Watt vs 20 Watt
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 174 vs 172

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 May 2010 vs 3 June 2008
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	9 Watt vs 20 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	174 vs 172

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Around 32% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 380 MHz
Around 85% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 122 vs 66

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 380 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	122 vs 66

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

122

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

174

172

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
PassMark - G3D Mark	66	122
PassMark - G2D Mark	174	172

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Tesla
Code name	RS880	G96
Launch date	1 May 2010	3 June 2008
Place in performance rating	982	983
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	380 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	9 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	181 million	314 million
CUDA cores		16
Floating-point performance		40 gflops
Gigaflops		60
Pipelines		16
Texture fill rate		4 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1600 MHz
Memory type		GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0