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.

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460

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

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	982	984
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