ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP vs ATI Radeon 9700 PRO

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP and ATI Radeon 9700 PRO 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 151 vs 149
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 March 2003 vs 1 July 2002
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 151 vs 149

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9700 PRO

  • Around 96% higher core clock speed: 325 MHz vs 166 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 150 nm vs 180 nm
  • 9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 54 vs 6
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 325 MHz vs 166 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 150 nm vs 180 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 54 vs 6

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9700 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
6
54
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
151
149
Name ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP ATI Radeon 9700 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark 6 54
PassMark - G2D Mark 151 149

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP ATI Radeon 9700 PRO

Essentials

Architecture Rage 6 Rage 8
Code name RS250 R300
Launch date 1 March 2003 1 July 2002
Place in performance rating 1102 1103
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 166 MHz 325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 180 nm 150 nm
Transistor count 30 million 110 million
Texture fill rate 2.6 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface AGP 4x AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors None Floppy

API support

DirectX 7.0 9.0
OpenGL 1.3 2.0

Memory

Shared memory yes
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 19.84 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 620 MHz
Memory type DDR