AMD Radeon HD 6430M vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6430M and ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon HD 6430M

ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6430M

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 4 month(s) later
2x more core clock speed: 480 MHz vs 240 MHz
40x more pipelines: 160 vs 4
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 64 MB
4x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 400 MHz
64.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 193 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 January 2011 vs 1 September 2002
Core clock speed	480 MHz vs 240 MHz
Pipelines	160 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	193 vs 3

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

250x more texture fill rate: 960 MTexel / s vs 3.84 GTexel / s
Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 111 vs 106

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	960 MTexel / s vs 3.84 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	111 vs 106

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6430M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

193

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

106

111

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6430M	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
PassMark - G3D Mark	193	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	106	111

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6430M	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Rage 7
Code name	Seymour	M9
Launch date	4 January 2011	1 September 2002
Place in performance rating	1314	1317
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	480 MHz	240 MHz
Floating-point performance	153.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	160	4
Texture fill rate	3.84 GTexel / s	960 MTexel / s
Transistor count	370 million	36 million
Boost clock speed		240 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	8.1
OpenGL	4.4	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	128
Shared memory	0	0