ATI Radeon 9600 vs Quadro 500M

Place in the ranking	1051	1527
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	2.99	0.51
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code name	GF108	RV350
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Release date	22 February 2011 (15 years ago)	1 October 2003 (22 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	96	no data
Core clock speed	700 MHz	324 MHz
Number of transistors	585 million	60 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	12 Watt
Texture fill rate	11.20	1.296
Floating-point processing power	0.2688 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	4	4
TMUs	16	4
L1 Cache	128 KB	no data
L2 Cache	256 KB	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	AGP 8x
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

VRAM capacity and type

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 type	DDR3	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	189 MHz
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB/s	6.048 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	2.1	-

Synthetic benchmarks

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

Quadro 500M 1.36
+1600%

ATI 9600 0.08

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Quadro 500M 570
+1529%

Samples: 6

ATI 9600 35
Samples: 4

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	1.36	0.08
Recency	22 February 2011	1 October 2003
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	12 Watt

Quadro 500M has a 1600% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 225% more advanced lithography process.

ATI 9600, on the other hand, has 192% lower power consumption.

The Quadro 500M is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon 9600 in performance tests.

Be aware that Quadro 500M is a mobile workstation graphics card while Radeon 9600 is a desktop one.