ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 vs ATI Radeon 7000

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon 9200

ATI Radeon 7000

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9200

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 9% higher core clock speed: 200 MHz vs 183 MHz
Around 46% higher texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 549 MTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 150 nm vs 180 nm
Around 26% higher memory clock speed: 460 MHz vs 366 MHz
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 145 vs 144

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 March 2003 vs 19 February 2001
Core clock speed	200 MHz vs 183 MHz
Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 549 MTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm vs 180 nm
Memory clock speed	460 MHz vs 366 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	145 vs 144

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 7000

3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9 vs 3

Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	9 vs 3

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9200
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 7000

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

145

144

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9200	ATI Radeon 7000
PassMark - G3D Mark	3	9
PassMark - G2D Mark	145	144

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9200	ATI Radeon 7000
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 7	Rage 6
Code name	M9+	RV100
Launch date	1 March 2003	19 February 2001
Place in performance rating	1135	1137
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	250 MHz
Core clock speed	200 MHz	183 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	180 nm
Pipelines	4
Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s	549 MTexel / s
Transistor count	36 million	30 million
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
API support
DirectX	8.1	7.0
OpenGL	1.4	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.72 GB / s	2.928 GB / s
Memory bus width	200 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	460 MHz	366 MHz
Memory type	128	DDR
Shared memory	0