NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 80% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 250 MHz
10.8x more texture fill rate: 10.8 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 64 MB
2.7x more memory clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 486 MHz
8.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 258 vs 30

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 March 2006 vs 1 June 2004
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	10.8 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1320 MHz vs 486 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	258 vs 30

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 166 vs 160

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	166 vs 160

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

258

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

160

166

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT	ATI Mobility Radeon 9550
PassMark - G3D Mark	258	30
PassMark - G2D Mark	160	166

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT	ATI Mobility Radeon 9550
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rage 9
Code name	G71	M12
Launch date	9 March 2006	1 June 2004
Place in performance rating	1021	1023
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	10.8 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	48 Watt
Transistor count	278 million	76 million
Boost clock speed		210 MHz
Pipelines		4
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
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	42.2 GB / s	3.89 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	183 Bit
Memory clock speed	1320 MHz	486 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	64
Shared memory		no