NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS vs ATI Radeon 9600 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS and ATI 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • 4.7x more texture fill rate: 7.5 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
  • Around 67% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 6.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 176 vs 27
  • Around 72% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 254 vs 148
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 April 2006 vs 1 October 2003
Texture fill rate 7.5 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 176 vs 27
PassMark - G2D Mark 254 vs 148

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9600 PRO

  • Around 7% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 375 MHz
  • Around 11% lower typical power consumption: 18 Watt vs 20 Watt
Core clock speed 400 MHz vs 375 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 18 Watt vs 20 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9600 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
176
27
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
254
148
Name NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS ATI Radeon 9600 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark 176 27
PassMark - G2D Mark 254 148
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 916
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 916

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS ATI Radeon 9600 PRO

Essentials

Architecture Curie Rage 8
Code name G71 RV350
Launch date 18 April 2006 1 October 2003
Place in performance rating 1112 1115
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 375 MHz
Core clock speed 375 MHz 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 20
Texture fill rate 7.5 GTexel / s 1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt 18 Watt
Transistor count 278 million 76 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-II AGP 8x
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 9.0c 9.0
OpenGL 2.1 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 32.0 GB / s 9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 500 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 600 MHz
Memory type 256 DDR
Shared memory 0