NVIDIA GeForce G205M vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce G205M and ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce G205M

ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce G205M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 80% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 250 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm
Around 77% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 294 vs 166
3.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 92 vs 30

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 January 2009 vs 1 June 2004
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	294 vs 166
PassMark - G3D Mark	92 vs 30

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce G205M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

294

166

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce G205M	ATI Mobility Radeon 9550
PassMark - G2D Mark	294	166
PassMark - G3D Mark	92	30
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	989
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	989

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce G205M	ATI Mobility Radeon 9550
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 9
Code name	MCP79MX	M12
Launch date	8 January 2009	1 June 2004
Place in performance rating	1034	1037
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	76 million
Boost clock speed		210 MHz
Pipelines		4
Texture fill rate		1 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 4x
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		64 MB
Memory bandwidth		3.89 GB / s
Memory bus width		183 Bit
Memory clock speed		486 MHz
Memory type		64
Shared memory		no