NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4830

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and ATI Radeon HD 4830 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

  • 4.1x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 95 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt vs 95 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4830

  • Around 15% higher core clock speed: 575 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 2.3x more texture fill rate: 18.4 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
  • 20x more pipelines: 640 vs 32
  • 9.2x better floating-point performance: 736.0 gflops vs 80 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1584 MHz
Core clock speed 575 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 18.4 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 640 vs 32
Floating-point performance 736.0 gflops vs 80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm vs 65 nm
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1584 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4830

Name NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition ATI Radeon HD 4830
PassMark - G3D Mark 836
PassMark - G2D Mark 66
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3354
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3354

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition ATI Radeon HD 4830

Essentials

Architecture Tesla TeraScale
Code name G96 RV770
Launch date 25 October 2008 21 October 2008
Place in performance rating not rated 1329
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $130

Technical info

Core clock speed 500 MHz 575 MHz
Floating-point performance 80 gflops 736.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 32 640
Texture fill rate 8 GTexel / s 18.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt 95 Watt
Transistor count 314 million 956 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-II PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 246 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 10.0 10.1
OpenGL 3.3 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 25.34 GB / s 57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1584 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3