ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 vs ATI FireGL X1-256

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 and ATI FireGL X1-256 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 9550

ATI FireGL X1-256

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm

Launch date	1 June 2004 vs 1 July 2002
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL X1-256

Around 30% higher core clock speed: 325 MHz vs 250 MHz
2.6x more texture fill rate: 2.6 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
4x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 64 MB
Around 28% higher memory clock speed: 620 MHz vs 486 MHz
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 167 vs 166
Around 97% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 59 vs 30

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	325 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	2.6 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	620 MHz vs 486 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	167 vs 166
PassMark - G3D Mark	59 vs 30

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9550
GPU 2: ATI FireGL X1-256

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

166

167

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9550	ATI FireGL X1-256
PassMark - G2D Mark	166	167
PassMark - G3D Mark	30	59

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9550	ATI FireGL X1-256
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 9	Rage 8
Code name	M12	R300
Launch date	1 June 2004	1 July 2002
Place in performance rating	1052	1054
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	210 MHz
Core clock speed	250 MHz	325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	4
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s	2.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count	76 million	110 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		37 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	AGP 8x
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0	9.0
OpenGL	2.0	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	3.89 GB / s	19.84 GB / s
Memory bus width	183 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	486 MHz	620 MHz
Memory type	64	DDR
Shared memory	no