ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

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General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureG9x (2007−2010)RV6xx (2007−2010)
GPU code nameNB9PM76-XT
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 June 2008 (15 years old)14 May 2007 (16 years old)
Current price$1279 no data

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16120
CUDA cores16no data
Core clock speed500 MHz700 MHz
Number of transistors314 million390 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Wattno data
Texture fill rate4.0005.440
Floating-point performance40 gflops163.2 gflops
Gigaflops60no data

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce 9500M G and Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizemedium sizedlarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16MXM-II

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR2, GDDR3DDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB256+ MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz750 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s24 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model4.04.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+no data

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 3 June 2008 14 May 2007
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256+ MB

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