ATI Mobility FireGL V3100 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9500

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility FireGL V3100 and ATI Mobility Radeon 9500 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies.

ATI Mobility FireGL V3100

ATI Mobility Radeon 9500

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility FireGL V3100

Around 52% higher core clock speed: 350 MHz vs 230 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 130 nm
Around 5% higher memory clock speed: 400 MHz vs 380 MHz

Core clock speed	350 MHz vs 230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 130 nm
Memory clock speed	400 MHz vs 380 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9500

657.1x more texture fill rate: 920 MTexel / s vs 1.4 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	920 MTexel / s vs 1.4 GTexel / s

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility FireGL V3100	ATI Mobility Radeon 9500
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 9	Rage 8
Code name	M22	M10
Launch date	1 June 2004	1 June 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	350 MHz
Core clock speed	350 MHz	230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	4
Texture fill rate	1.4 GTexel / s	920 MTexel / s
Transistor count	107 million	76 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 4x
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0b	9.0
OpenGL	2.0	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	3.04 GB / s
Memory bus width	200 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	380 MHz
Memory type	128	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
PCIe