NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v 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 9500 GT Mac Edition

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

Around 10% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 500 MHz
2.2x more texture fill rate: 8.8 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Around 12% better floating-point performance: 89.6 gflops vs 80 gflops
Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	8.8 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	89.6 gflops vs 80 gflops
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v

2.5x more pipelines: 80 vs 32
5x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 50 Watt

Pipelines	80 vs 32
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v
PassMark - G3D Mark		175
PassMark - G2D Mark		353

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	TeraScale
Code name	G96C	M92
Launch date	19 May 2010	5 May 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	447
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	89.6 gflops	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	32	80
Texture fill rate	8.8 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	10 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	242 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3, DDR3, DDR2
Shared memory		0