NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7950 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 7950 GT

ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
2.2x more core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 250 MHz
13.2x more texture fill rate: 13.2 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 64 MB
2.9x more memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 486 MHz
11.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 348 vs 30

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	6 August 2006 vs 1 June 2004
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	13.2 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 486 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	348 vs 30

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 166 vs 153

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	166 vs 153

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

348

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

153

166

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT	ATI Mobility Radeon 9550
PassMark - G3D Mark	348	30
PassMark - G2D Mark	153	166

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT	ATI Mobility Radeon 9550
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rage 9
Code name	G71	M12
Launch date	6 August 2006	1 June 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$114.95
Place in performance rating	1035	1037
Price now	$114.95
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	2.99
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	13.2 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 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	512 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	44.8 GB / s	3.89 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	183 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	486 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	64
Shared memory		no