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.
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
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PassMark - G3D Mark |
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Name | ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 | ATI FireGL X1-256 |
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PassMark - G2D Mark | 166 | 167 |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 30 | 59 |
Compare specifications (specs)
ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 | ATI FireGL X1-256 | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Rage 9 | Rage 8 |
Code name | M12 | R300 |
Launch date | 1 June 2004 | 1 July 2002 |
Place in performance rating | 1023 | 1025 |
Type | Laptop | Workstation |
Technical info |
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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 |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | AGP 4x | AGP 8x |
Laptop size | medium sized | |
Supplementary power connectors | None | |
API support |
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DirectX | 9.0 | 9.0 |
OpenGL | 2.0 | 2.0 |
Memory |
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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 |