ATI Mobility Radeon 9500 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9500 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon 9500

ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9500

920x more texture fill rate: 920 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB

Texture fill rate	920 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Around 9% higher core clock speed: 250 MHz vs 230 MHz
Around 28% higher memory clock speed: 486 MHz vs 380 MHz

Core clock speed	250 MHz vs 230 MHz
Memory clock speed	486 MHz vs 380 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9500
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9500	ATI Mobility Radeon 9550
PassMark - G2D Mark		166
PassMark - G3D Mark		30

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9500	ATI Mobility Radeon 9550
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8	Rage 9
Code name	M10	M12
Launch date	1 June 2004	1 June 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	1037
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	230 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	920 MTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Transistor count	76 million	76 million
Boost clock speed		210 MHz
Pipelines		4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	AGP 4x
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0	9.0
OpenGL	2.0	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	3.04 GB / s	3.89 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	183 Bit
Memory clock speed	380 MHz	486 MHz
Memory type	DDR	64
Shared memory		no