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 |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Name | NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G | NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460 |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 122 | 4 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 172 | 176 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G | NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460 | |
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Essentials |
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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 |
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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 |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | AGP 4x |
Laptop size | medium sized | |
Supplementary power connectors | None | |
API support |
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DirectX | 10.0 | 8.0 |
OpenGL | 3.3 | 1.3 |
Memory |
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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 |
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CUDA | ||
PCI-E 2.0 |