NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G vs ATI Radeon 9800 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G and ATI Radeon 9800 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.

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

ATI Radeon 9800 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 32% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 380 MHz
Around 32% higher texture fill rate: 4 GTexel / s vs 3.04 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 150 nm
2.4x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 47 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
2.4x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 680 MHz
Around 85% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 122 vs 66

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 June 2008 vs 1 October 2003
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 380 MHz
Texture fill rate	4 GTexel / s vs 3.04 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 150 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 47 Watt
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 680 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	122 vs 66

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9800 PRO

Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 175 vs 172

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	175 vs 172

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9800 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

122

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

172

175

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G	ATI Radeon 9800 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	122	66
PassMark - G2D Mark	172	175

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G	ATI Radeon 9800 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 9
Code name	G96	R360
Launch date	3 June 2008	1 October 2003
Place in performance rating	982	983
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	380 MHz
CUDA cores	16
Floating-point performance	40 gflops
Gigaflops	60
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	4 GTexel / s	3.04 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	47 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	117 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	21.76 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	680 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0