ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP vs ATI Radeon 7000

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP and ATI Radeon 7000 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP

ATI Radeon 7000

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 64% higher core clock speed: 300 MHz vs 183 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 150 nm vs 180 nm

Launch date	1 May 2003 vs 19 February 2001
Core clock speed	300 MHz vs 183 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm vs 180 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 7000

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 144 vs 143
Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9 vs 8

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	144 vs 143
PassMark - G3D Mark	9 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 7000

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

143

144

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP	ATI Radeon 7000
PassMark - G2D Mark	143	144
PassMark - G3D Mark	8	9

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP	ATI Radeon 7000
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 7	Rage 6
Code name	RS300	RV100
Launch date	1 May 2003	19 February 2001
Place in performance rating	1138	1140
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	300 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	183 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	180 nm
Pipelines	2
Transistor count	76 million	30 million
Texture fill rate		549 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		23 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	8.1	7.0
OpenGL	1.4	1.3
Memory
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		32 MB
Memory bandwidth		2.928 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		366 MHz
Memory type		DDR