NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5950 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5950 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5950

ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5950

Around 41% higher core clock speed: 475 MHz vs 337 MHz
Around 41% higher texture fill rate: 1.9 GTexel / s vs 1.348 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Around 95% higher memory clock speed: 950 MHz vs 486 MHz

Core clock speed	475 MHz vs 337 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.9 GTexel / s vs 1.348 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	950 MHz vs 486 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5950
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo

Name	NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5950	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo
PassMark - G3D Mark		25
PassMark - G2D Mark		137

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5950	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo
Essentials
Architecture	Rankine	Rage 8
Code name	NV38 A1	M10
Launch date	17 February 2004	13 February 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	1175
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	475 MHz	337 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	1.9 GTexel / s	1.348 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	57 Watt
Transistor count	135 million	76 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	9.0a	9.0
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	30.4 GB / s	7.78 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	950 MHz	486 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR