ATI Mobility FireGL 9000 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 7500C

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility FireGL 9000 and ATI Mobility Radeon 7500C 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 7500C

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility FireGL 9000

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
Around 9% higher core clock speed: 250 MHz vs 230 MHz
4x more maximum memory size: 64 MB vs 16 MB
Around 9% higher memory clock speed: 400 MHz vs 366 MHz

Launch date	1 January 2002 vs 1 December 2001
Core clock speed	250 MHz vs 230 MHz
Maximum memory size	64 MB vs 16 MB
Memory clock speed	400 MHz vs 366 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500C

460x more texture fill rate: 460 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	460 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility FireGL 9000	ATI Mobility Radeon 7500C
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 7	Rage 7
Code name	M9	M7
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	230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	4
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s	460 MTexel / s
Transistor count	36 million	60 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		27 Watt
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	2.928 GB / s
Memory bus width	200 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	366 MHz
Memory type	128	DDR
Shared memory	0