NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS GDDR3 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 9200M GS GDDR3 and 128MB VRAM Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS GDDR3 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)
8 additional rendering cores
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.67GB/s vs 11.23GB/s)
Score
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 9M(9000M)
Generation
M5x
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
702 MHz
Memory Clock
396 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
11.23GB/s
Bandwidth
12.67GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
1
SM Count
-
8
Shading Units
-
4
TMUs
4
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.116 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.592 GPixel/s
2.116 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.592 GTexel/s
-
-
-
20.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
13W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
G98
GPU Name
M56
G98-700-U2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Ultra-Threaded SE
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
90 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
0.157 billion
80 mm²
Die Size
150 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
