ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5570 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5570 and NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5570

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5570

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 25% higher texture fill rate: 11 GTexel / s vs 8.8 GTexel / s
12.5x more pipelines: 400 vs 32
4.9x better floating-point performance: 440.0 gflops vs 89.6 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
2.5x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 50 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB

Launch date	23 November 2012 vs 19 May 2010
Texture fill rate	11 GTexel / s vs 8.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	400 vs 32
Floating-point performance	440.0 gflops vs 89.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 50 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5570
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5570	NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	525
PassMark - G2D Mark	247
Geekbench - OpenCL	1186
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1684
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3070
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3070

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5570	NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Pinewood	G96C
Launch date	23 November 2012	19 May 2010
Place in performance rating	1075	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	440.0 gflops	89.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	400	32
Texture fill rate	11 GTexel / s	8.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	627 million	314 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		145 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3