ATI Radeon E4690 MXM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon E4690 MXM and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon E4690 MXM

  • Around 3% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 580 MHz
  • 3.3x more pipelines: 320 vs 96
  • Around 38% better floating-point performance: 384.0 gflops vs 278.4 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
  • 4.7x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 140 Watt
Core clock speed 600 MHz vs 580 MHz
Pipelines 320 vs 96
Floating-point performance 384.0 gflops vs 278.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 140 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

  • Around 45% higher texture fill rate: 27.84 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
Texture fill rate 27.84 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon E4690 MXM NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale Tesla
Code name RV730 G92
Launch date 1 June 2009 27 May 2009
Place in performance rating not rated not rated
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz 580 MHz
Floating-point performance 384.0 gflops 278.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 320 96
Texture fill rate 19.2 GTexel / s 27.84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt 140 Watt
Transistor count 514 million 754 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-II PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 10.1 10.0
OpenGL 3.3 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 22.4 GB / s 44.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1400 MHz 1400 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3

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