ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO vs ATI Radeon 9100

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO and ATI Radeon 9100 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 9600 PRO

ATI Radeon 9100

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 33% higher core clock speed: 333 MHz vs 250 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB
7.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 43 vs 6

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 June 2004 vs 1 April 2003
Core clock speed	333 MHz vs 250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	43 vs 6

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9100

Around 50% higher texture fill rate: 2 GTexel / s vs 1.332 GTexel / s
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 500 MHz vs 400 MHz

Texture fill rate	2 GTexel / s vs 1.332 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	500 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9100

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

163

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO	ATI Radeon 9100
PassMark - G2D Mark	163	163
PassMark - G3D Mark	43	6

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO	ATI Radeon 9100
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8	Rage 7
Code name	M10	R200
Launch date	1 June 2004	1 April 2003
Place in performance rating	1054	1056
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	333 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1.332 GTexel / s	2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	76 million	60 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		28 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0	8.1
OpenGL	2.0	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR