NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS vs ATI FireGL V3350

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS and ATI FireGL V3350 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.

NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

ATI FireGL V3350

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 600 MHz
4.2x more texture fill rate: 10 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 90 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
3.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 270 vs 69

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2008 vs 1 October 2005
Core clock speed	1250 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	270 vs 69

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V3350

Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 336 vs 328

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	336 vs 328

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V3350

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

270

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

328

336

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS	ATI FireGL V3350
PassMark - G3D Mark	270	69
PassMark - G2D Mark	328	336

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS	ATI FireGL V3350
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	R500
Code name	G84	RV515
Launch date	13 March 2008	1 October 2005
Place in performance rating	507	510
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	1250 MHz	600 MHz
CUDA cores	32
Floating-point performance	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s	2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt
Transistor count	289 million	107 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2?, GDDR3	DDR2
Shared memory	0