NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700 and ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 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 Go5700

ATI Mobility Radeon 9600

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
Around 50% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 50% higher texture fill rate: 1.8 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s
Around 38% higher memory clock speed: 550 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 42% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 51 vs 36

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 February 2005 vs 1 June 2004
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.8 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	550 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	51 vs 36

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9600

4x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 32 MB
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 172 vs 171

Specifications (specs)
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 32 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	172 vs 171

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

171

172

Name	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600
PassMark - G3D Mark	51	36
PassMark - G2D Mark	171	172

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600
Essentials
Architecture	Rankine	Rage 8
Code name	NV36 A1	M10
Launch date	1 February 2005	1 June 2004
Place in performance rating	989	990
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	1.8 GTexel / s	1.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	82 million	76 million
Boost clock speed		300 MHz
Pipelines		4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0a	9.0
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	8.8 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	300 Bit
Memory clock speed	550 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR	128 / 64
Shared memory		0