NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G vs NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G and NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460 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 6 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 67% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • 3.3x more texture fill rate: 4 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 150 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 64 MB
  • 3.6x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 30.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 122 vs 4
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 June 2008 vs 6 February 2002
Core clock speed 500 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate 4 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size 512 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 450 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 122 vs 4

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460

  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 176 vs 172
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 176 vs 172

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
122
4
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
172
176
Name NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460
PassMark - G3D Mark 122 4
PassMark - G2D Mark 172 176

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460

Essentials

Architecture Tesla Celsius
Code name G96 NV17 A3
Launch date 3 June 2008 6 February 2002
Place in performance rating 983 985
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 500 MHz 300 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 1.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt
Transistor count 314 million 29 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 4x
Laptop size medium sized
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 10.0 8.0
OpenGL 3.3 1.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 64 MB
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB / s 7.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 450 MHz
Memory type GDDR2, GDDR3 DDR
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
PCI-E 2.0