NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Dual vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Dual and ATI Mobility Radeon 9500 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Dual

ATI Mobility Radeon 9500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Dual

Around 52% higher core clock speed: 350 MHz vs 230 MHz
4x more maximum memory size: 2x 256 MB vs 128 MB
2.6x more memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 380 MHz

Core clock speed	350 MHz vs 230 MHz
Maximum memory size	2x 256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 380 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9500

35.9x more texture fill rate: 920 MTexel / s vs 2x 5.6 GTexel / s billion / sec

Texture fill rate	920 MTexel / s vs 2x 5.6 GTexel / s billion / sec

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Dual	ATI Mobility Radeon 9500
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rage 8
Code name	NV40 A1	M10
Launch date	8 June 2004	1 June 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	350 MHz	230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	2x 5.6 GTexel / s billion / sec	920 MTexel / s
Transistor count	222 million	76 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	2x 32.0 GB / s	3.04 GB / s
Memory bus width	2x 256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	380 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR