ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

General info

Comparison of graphics card architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters.

Place in performance rating	not rated	1024
Architecture	G9x (2007−2010)	Terascale 1 (2008−2010)
GPU code name	NB9P-GS	M92
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	4 June 2008 (14 years old)	1 January 2010 (13 years old)
Current price	$287	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 cores	32	80
CUDA cores	32	no data
Core clock speed	120 MHz	550 MHz
Number of transistors	314 million	242 million
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	55 nm
Thermal design power (TDP)	23 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	8.000	4.400
Floating-point performance	80 gflops	88 gflops

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce 9600M GT and Mobility Radeon HD 4550 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 size	medium sized	no data
Interface	MXM-II	MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

Memory

Parameters of memory installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated VRAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3	GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	700 MHz
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB/s	11.2 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 Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

API support

APIs supported, including particular versions of those APIs.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	4.0	4.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
OpenCL	1.1	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	+	no data

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

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Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	4 June 2008	1 January 2010
Memory bus width	128	64
Memory bandwidth	25.6	11.2
Pipelines / CUDA cores	32	80
Chip lithography	65 nm	55 nm

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