ATI Radeon 9600 vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1455
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data0.51
ArchitectureGen. 3 (2005)Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code nameGMA 950RV350
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 March 2005 (19 years ago)1 October 2003 (21 year 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 cores4no data
Core clock speedno data324 MHz
Boost clock speed250 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data60 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)7 Watt12 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1.296
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data4

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).

Interfaceno dataAGP 8x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataDDR
Maximum RAM amountno data64 MB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data189 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data6.048 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

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 data1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data9.0 (9_0)
OpenGLno data2.0
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2005 1 October 2003
Power consumption (TDP) 7 Watt 12 Watt

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 has an age advantage of 1 year, and 71.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 and Radeon 9600. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 is a notebook card while Radeon 9600 is a desktop one.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950
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ATI Radeon 9600
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