NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE and ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE

ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 10% higher core clock speed: 275 MHz vs 250 MHz
2.2x more texture fill rate: 2.2 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
4x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 64 MB
Around 9% higher memory clock speed: 532 MHz vs 486 MHz
Around 97% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 59 vs 30

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	30 September 2005 vs 1 June 2004
Core clock speed	275 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	2.2 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	532 MHz vs 486 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	59 vs 30

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

166

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE	ATI Mobility Radeon 9550
PassMark - G2D Mark	166	166
PassMark - G3D Mark	59	30

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE	ATI Mobility Radeon 9550
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rage 9
Code name	NV40 A1	M12
Launch date	30 September 2005	1 June 2004
Place in performance rating	1022	1023
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	275 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	2.2 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Transistor count	222 million	76 million
Boost clock speed		210 MHz
Pipelines		4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	8.51 GB / s	3.89 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	183 Bit
Memory clock speed	532 MHz	486 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	64
Shared memory		no