NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M and ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 3 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 337 MHz
18.4x more texture fill rate: 24.8 billion / sec vs 1.348 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
12x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 128 MB
2.6x more memory clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 486 MHz
50.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1263 vs 25
Around 91% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 262 vs 137

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	30 May 2011 vs 13 February 2004
Core clock speed	775 MHz vs 337 MHz
Texture fill rate	24.8 billion / sec vs 1.348 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz vs 486 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1263 vs 25
PassMark - G2D Mark	262 vs 137

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1263

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

262

137

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo
PassMark - G3D Mark	1263	25
PassMark - G2D Mark	262	137
Geekbench - OpenCL	4919
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	13.598
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	404.618
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.227
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	25.333
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	44.123
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1857
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3275
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3341
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1857
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3275
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3341
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Rage 8
Code name	GF116	M10
Launch date	30 May 2011	13 February 2004
Place in performance rating	1174	1176
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	775 MHz	337 MHz
CUDA cores	192
Floating-point performance	595.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	192
Texture fill rate	24.8 billion / sec	1.348 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt
Transistor count	1,170 million	76 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	AGP 8x
Laptop size	large
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 API	9.0
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	128 MB
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	486 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0
Memory bandwidth		7.78 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
Optimus