ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6500

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 and NVIDIA GeForce 6500 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850

NVIDIA GeForce 6500

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 25% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 400 MHz
12.5x more texture fill rate: 20 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 110 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
2.6x more memory clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 666 MHz
22.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 866 vs 38
Around 57% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 472 vs 300

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 January 2009 vs 1 October 2005
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	20 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1700 MHz vs 666 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	866 vs 38
PassMark - G2D Mark	472 vs 300

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

866

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

472

300

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850	NVIDIA GeForce 6500
PassMark - G3D Mark	866	38
PassMark - G2D Mark	472	300
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2486
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2486

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850	NVIDIA GeForce 6500
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Curie
Code name	M98	NV44 A2
Launch date	9 January 2009	1 October 2005
Place in performance rating	549	546
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	800.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	800
Texture fill rate	20 GTexel / s	1.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count	956 million	75 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	54.4 GB / s	10.66 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1700 MHz	666 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR2
Shared memory	0
Technologies
1x Dual-Link/Single-Link DVI
1x Single-Link DVI Support (all display ports have to be supported by the laptop manufacturer)
DisplayPort support up to 2560x1600
HDMI support up to 1920x1080 (both with 7.1 AC3 Audio)
PCI-E 2.0 x16
Powerplay