NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT and ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO 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 9600 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 65% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 333 MHz
9.9x more texture fill rate: 13.2 GTexel / s vs 1.332 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: 512 MB vs 128 MB
3.5x more memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 400 MHz
8.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 348 vs 43

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	6 August 2006 vs 1 June 2004
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 333 MHz
Texture fill rate	13.2 GTexel / s vs 1.332 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	348 vs 43

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO

Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 163 vs 153

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	163 vs 153

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

348

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

153

163

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	348	43
PassMark - G2D Mark	153	163

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rage 8
Code name	G71	M10
Launch date	6 August 2006	1 June 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$114.95
Place in performance rating	1036	1038
Price now	$114.95
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	2.99
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	333 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	13.2 GTexel / s	1.332 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt
Transistor count	278 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 8x
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	44.8 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR