NVIDIA GeForce 940MX vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.9x more core clock speed: 954 MHz vs 333 MHz
17.9x more texture fill rate: 23.83 GTexel / s vs 1.332 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 128 MB
12.5x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 400 MHz
35.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1516 vs 43
Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 172 vs 163

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	28 June 2016 vs 1 June 2004
Core clock speed	954 MHz vs 333 MHz
Texture fill rate	23.83 GTexel / s vs 1.332 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1516 vs 43
PassMark - G2D Mark	172 vs 163

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1516

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

172

163

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 940MX	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	1516	43
PassMark - G2D Mark	172	163
Geekbench - OpenCL	6325
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	28.91
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	312.94
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.83
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	27.833
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	103.937
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2486
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3587
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2486
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3587
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	585

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 940MX	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Rage 8
Code name	GM108	M10
Launch date	28 June 2016	1 June 2004
Place in performance rating	1071	1069
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	993 MHz
Core clock speed	954 MHz	333 MHz
Floating-point performance	762.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	23.83 GTexel / s	1.332 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	76 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 8x
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	40.1 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
Optimus