ATI Mobility FireGL 9000 vs ATI Mobility Radeon

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility FireGL 9000 and ATI Mobility Radeon videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Mobility FireGL 9000

ATI Mobility Radeon

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility FireGL 9000

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
Around 74% higher core clock speed: 250 MHz vs 144 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 150 nm vs 180 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 64 MB vs 16 MB
Around 39% higher memory clock speed: 400 MHz vs 288 MHz

Launch date	1 January 2002 vs 1 December 2001
Core clock speed	250 MHz vs 144 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size	64 MB vs 16 MB
Memory clock speed	400 MHz vs 288 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon

432x more texture fill rate: 432 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	432 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility FireGL 9000	ATI Mobility Radeon
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 7	Rage 6
Code name	M9	M6
Launch date	1 January 2002	1 December 2001
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	250 MHz
Core clock speed	250 MHz	144 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	180 nm
Pipelines	4
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s	432 MTexel / s
Transistor count	36 million	30 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	AGP 4x
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	8.1	7.0
OpenGL	1.4	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	16 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	2.304 GB / s
Memory bus width	200 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	288 MHz
Memory type	128	DDR
Shared memory	0