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.

ATI Radeon E4690 MXM

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

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