ATI Mobility Radeon 9500 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9600

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9500 and ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 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 9600

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9500

766.7x more texture fill rate: 920 MTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	920 MTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9600

Around 30% higher core clock speed: 300 MHz vs 230 MHz
Around 5% higher memory clock speed: 400 MHz vs 380 MHz

Core clock speed	300 MHz vs 230 MHz
Memory clock speed	400 MHz vs 380 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9500
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9500	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600
PassMark - G2D Mark		172
PassMark - G3D Mark		36

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9500	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8	Rage 8
Code name	M10	M10
Launch date	1 June 2004	1 June 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	990
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	230 MHz	300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	920 MTexel / s	1.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	76 million	76 million
Boost clock speed		300 MHz
Pipelines		4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	AGP 8x
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0	9.0
OpenGL	2.0	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	3.04 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	300 Bit
Memory clock speed	380 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR	128 / 64
Shared memory		0