NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
2.8x more core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 500 MHz
2.2x more texture fill rate: 8.8 billion / sec vs 4 GTexel / s
Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 172 vs 142

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 July 2008 vs 7 January 2008
Core clock speed	1400 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	8.8 billion / sec vs 4 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	172 vs 142

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650

3.8x more pipelines: 120 vs 32
Around 34% better floating-point performance: 120 gflops vs 89.6 gflops
Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 50 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 / 512 MB
Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1586 vs 1505
Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1586 vs 1505

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	120 vs 32
Floating-point performance	120 gflops vs 89.6 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 50 Watt
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 / 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1586 vs 1505
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1586 vs 1505

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

172

142

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1505

1586

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1505

1586

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
PassMark - G3D Mark	172	142
PassMark - G2D Mark	32	32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	0.612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	56.838
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1505	1586
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1505	1586

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	TeraScale
Code name	G96C	M86
Launch date	29 July 2008	7 January 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$85.99
Place in performance rating	1666	1618
Price now	$85.99
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	4.13
Technical info
Core clock speed	1400 MHz	500 MHz
CUDA cores	32
Floating-point performance	89.6 gflops	120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	55 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	105 °C
Pipelines	32	120
Texture fill rate	8.8 billion / sec	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	378 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	S / PDIF
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video, Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI	No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-II
Length	6.875" (17.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.1
OpenGL	2.1	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 / 512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR2 / GDDR3 / GDDR4
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
SLI
PCI-E 2.0