AMD Radeon E9550 MXM vs ATI Radeon X1900 GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E9550 MXM and ATI Radeon X1900 GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E9550 MXM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 95% higher core clock speed: 1120 MHz vs 575 MHz
  • 26.4x more texture fill rate: 182.3 GTexel / s vs 6.9 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 90 nm
  • 32x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 256 MB
  • 4.2x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Launch date 27 September 2016 vs 1 May 2006
Core clock speed 1120 MHz vs 575 MHz
Texture fill rate 182.3 GTexel / s vs 6.9 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1900 GT

  • Around 27% lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 95 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 95 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E9550 MXM
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1900 GT

Name AMD Radeon E9550 MXM ATI Radeon X1900 GT
Geekbench - OpenCL 36624
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 112.64
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1474.586
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 9.473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 96.618
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 507.291
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3597
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3208
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3597
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3208
PassMark - G3D Mark 146
PassMark - G2D Mark 409

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon E9550 MXM ATI Radeon X1900 GT

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 R500
Code name Ellesmere R580
Launch date 27 September 2016 1 May 2006
Place in performance rating 501 388
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1266 MHz
Core clock speed 1120 MHz 575 MHz
Floating-point performance 5,834 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 2304
Texture fill rate 182.3 GTexel / s 6.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 384 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 160.0 GB / s 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3