AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550X Mobile and ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 1 month(s) later
3.3x more core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 337 MHz
38189.9x more texture fill rate: 51.48 GTexel/s vs 1.348 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 130 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 128 MB
14.4x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 486 MHz

Launch date	3 April 2018 vs 13 February 2004
Core clock speed	1100 MHz vs 337 MHz
Texture fill rate	51.48 GTexel/s vs 1.348 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 486 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550X Mobile
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo

Name	AMD Radeon 550X Mobile	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2322
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2322
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1748
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1748
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2522
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2522
Geekbench - OpenCL	10109
PassMark - G3D Mark		25
PassMark - G2D Mark		137

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 550X Mobile	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Rage 8
Code name	Lexa	M10
Design	Radeon 500X Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	3 April 2018	13 February 2004
Place in performance rating	1173	1170
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1287 MHz
Compute units	8/10
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	337 MHz
Floating-point performance	1.65 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	640
Pixel fill rate	20.60 GP/s
Render output units	16
Stream Processors	512/640
Texture fill rate	51.48 GTexel/s	1.348 GTexel / s
Texture Units	40
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	2,200 million	76 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 8x
API support
DirectX	12	9.0
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	56 GB/s	7.78 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	486 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support