ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO vs ATI Radeon 9800 XT

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO and ATI Radeon 9800 XT 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 9800 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 163 vs 160

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 June 2004 vs 1 October 2003
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	163 vs 160

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9800 XT

Around 24% higher core clock speed: 412 MHz vs 333 MHz
2.5x more texture fill rate: 3.3 GTexel / s vs 1.332 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Around 83% higher memory clock speed: 730 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 57 vs 43

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	412 MHz vs 333 MHz
Texture fill rate	3.3 GTexel / s vs 1.332 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	730 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	57 vs 43

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9800 XT

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

163

160

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO	ATI Radeon 9800 XT
PassMark - G2D Mark	163	160
PassMark - G3D Mark	43	57

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO	ATI Radeon 9800 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8	Rage 9
Code name	M10	R360
Launch date	1 June 2004	1 October 2003
Place in performance rating	1054	1055
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	333 MHz	412 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1.332 GTexel / s	3.3 GTexel / s
Transistor count	76 million	117 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		60 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0	9.0
OpenGL	2.0	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	23.36 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	730 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR