ATI Radeon HD 4650 DDR2 vs. GeForce 9500 GT DDR2

January 2009

Executive Summary
ATI RadeonTM HD 4650 vs. 9500 GT
Beats the competition in performance and features
Excellent brand perception of ATI RadeonTM HD 4600 Series Huge opportunity!
Lots of market demand for this type of product
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ATI RadeonTM HD 4600 Series
Excellent Market Perception!
ATI pulled a real coup with the 4600 series by releasing a GPU essentially as powerful as its previous high-end champion.
the HD 4650 can entertain by day and still game the night away. Hard to believe we used to pay $300 for this kind of performance.
comes packed with enough features to allow you to get the most out of your system while not breaking the bank to do so.
The ATI Radeon HD 4670 proved to be an excellent performer, especially considering its low-power operation and affordable price.
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ATI Radeon HD 4650 Superior Performance
ATI Radeon HD 4650 DDR2 Outperforms 9500 GT nearly 40%!

ATI Radeon HD 4650

GeForce 9500 GT DDR2
3DMark Vantage (H) 1680x1050 2xAA 8xAF Call of Duty 4 1600x1200 4xAA 8xAF Company of Heroes 1600x1200 4xAA 8xAF Crysis 1600x1200 (Med) Devil May Cry 4 1600x1200 4xAA 8xAF Far Cry 2 1600x1200 (High)
Comparisons based on AMD internal testing using AMD reference platform Configuration: AMD Phenom processor 8650 (B3 2.6Ghz), Gigabyte MA790GP/ASUS M3N-HT DLX (780a), 2GB DDR2-800-5-5-5-12, Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64bit. Display driver: Cat 8.128.561, nVidia 180.48 WHQL PhysX Acceleration Off ; AMD Graphics : 512MB DDR2 600e/500m Nvidia: 512MB DDR2 550e/500m
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ATI Radeon HD 4650 Graphics

The Technology Leader!!

ATI Radeon

HD 4650 DDR2

GeForce 9500GT

Architecture

Process Technology Compute Power Design Efficiency Texture Fill Rate Crysis 1600x1200 (med) DirectX Support
55nm 384 GFLOPS 8.17 GFLOPS/Watt 19.2 GT/s 1.36X DX 10.1

Old (Rebrand)

65nm 89.6 GFLOPS* 1.79 GFLOPS/Watt* 8.8 GT/s* 1X DX10
*GeForce 9500 GT GFLOPS calculated based on NVIDIA product information as of January 21, 2009. (http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_9500gt_us.html). *GFLOPS = Processor Cores x Processor Clock x 2. GFLOPS/W based on calculated GFLOPS / Max Card Power. GT/s reported on NVIDIA product site.
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Superior Power Efficiency
ATI Radeon HD 4650 has 4.5x more performance per watt than 9500 GT

GigaFLOPS per Watt

0 Jun-07 Sep-07 Dec-07 Mar-08 Jun-08 Sep-08 Dec-08 GeForce 8600 GT GeForce 8600 GT GeForce 9500 GT ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO ATI Radeon HD 3650
*GFLOPS/W based on calculated GFLOPS / Max Card Power. GFLOPS = Processor Cores x Processor Clock x 2. NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT product information as of January 21, 2009 (http://www.gpureview.com/geforce-8600-gt-card-513.html).NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT product information as of January 21, 2009 (http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_9500gt_us.html).
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Feature Comparison Summary
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 ATI Radeon HD 4650 DDR2

Performance Leadership

Nearly 40% Performance Lead*

Technology Leadership

55nm, DirectX 10.1
Leading Performance Per Watt**
Exceptional HD Experience
UVD 2 with H.264 & VC-1 Acceleration

Extensive Feature Set

7.1 Surround Sound, Integrated DP & HDMI
* In selected titles. For performance comparison, see slide 3 ** For efficiency comparison, see slide 5
NVIDIA product information as of January 21, 2009 (http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_9500gt_us.html).

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Conclusion

ATI RadeonTM HD 4650 Graphics compared to the 9500 GT:
Technology and Performance Leader Power Efficient Feature-Packed Leverage the ATI RadeonTM HD 4600 Series brand

Sell Sell Sell!!!

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