NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE and ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO 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 FX 5700 VE

ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 month(s) later
Around 28% higher texture fill rate: 1.7 GTexel / s vs 1.332 GTexel / s

Launch date	1 September 2004 vs 1 June 2004
Texture fill rate	1.7 GTexel / s vs 1.332 GTexel / s

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO

Around 33% higher core clock speed: 333 MHz vs 250 MHz
Around 30% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 43 vs 33
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 163 vs 161

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	333 MHz vs 250 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	43 vs 33
PassMark - G2D Mark	163 vs 161

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

161

163

Name	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	33	43
PassMark - G2D Mark	161	163

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Rankine	Rage 8
Code name	NV36 A1	M10
Launch date	1 September 2004	1 June 2004
Place in performance rating	1053	1054
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	250 MHz	333 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	1.7 GTexel / s	1.332 GTexel / s
Transistor count	82 million	76 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	9.0a	9.0
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	8.8 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR