ATI Mobility FireGL V3100 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility FireGL V3100 and ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

ATI Mobility FireGL V3100

ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility FireGL V3100

Around 40% higher core clock speed: 350 MHz vs 250 MHz
Around 67% higher boost clock speed: 350 MHz vs 210 MHz
Around 40% higher texture fill rate: 1.4 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 130 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB

Core clock speed	350 MHz vs 250 MHz
Boost clock speed	350 MHz vs 210 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.4 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Around 22% higher memory clock speed: 486 MHz vs 400 MHz

Memory clock speed	486 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility FireGL V3100
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Name	ATI Mobility FireGL V3100	ATI Mobility Radeon 9550
PassMark - G2D Mark		166
PassMark - G3D Mark		30

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility FireGL V3100	ATI Mobility Radeon 9550
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 9	Rage 9
Code name	M22	M12
Launch date	1 June 2004	1 June 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	1037
Type	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	350 MHz	210 MHz
Core clock speed	350 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	4	4
Texture fill rate	1.4 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / 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	medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0b	9.0
OpenGL	2.0	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	3.89 GB / s
Memory bus width	200 Bit	183 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	486 MHz
Memory type	128	64
Shared memory	0	no
Technologies
PCIe