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.

 

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
66
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 983 984
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