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).

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 4830

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		869
PassMark - G2D Mark		59
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	1339
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