ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 vs ATI Radeon 8500

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 and ATI Radeon 8500 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 8500

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9200

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
363.6x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s

Launch date	1 March 2003 vs 14 August 2001
Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 8500

Around 38% higher core clock speed: 275 MHz vs 200 MHz
2x more maximum memory size: 64 MB vs 32 MB
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 550 MHz vs 460 MHz
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7 vs 3
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 146 vs 145

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	275 MHz vs 200 MHz
Maximum memory size	64 MB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	550 MHz vs 460 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	7 vs 3
PassMark - G2D Mark	146 vs 145

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9200
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 8500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

145

146

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9200	ATI Radeon 8500
PassMark - G3D Mark	3	7
PassMark - G2D Mark	145	146

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9200	ATI Radeon 8500
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 7	Rage 7
Code name	M9+	R200
Launch date	1 March 2003	14 August 2001
Place in performance rating	1129	1132
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	250 MHz
Core clock speed	200 MHz	275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	4
Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s	2.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	36 million	60 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	8.1
OpenGL	1.4	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.72 GB / s	8.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	200 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	460 MHz	550 MHz
Memory type	128	DDR
Shared memory	0