ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 vs ATI Mobility FireGL T2

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 and ATI Mobility FireGL T2 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

ATI Mobility FireGL T2

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9600

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 172 vs 171

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 June 2004 vs 1 November 2003
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	172 vs 171

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility FireGL T2

Around 7% higher core clock speed: 320 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 7% higher texture fill rate: 1.28 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s
Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 41 vs 36

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	320 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.28 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	41 vs 36

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600
GPU 2: ATI Mobility FireGL T2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

172

171

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600	ATI Mobility FireGL T2
PassMark - G2D Mark	172	171
PassMark - G3D Mark	36	41

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600	ATI Mobility FireGL T2
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8	Rage 8
Code name	M10	M10
Launch date	1 June 2004	1 November 2003
Place in performance rating	1024	1026
Type	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	300 MHz	300 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	320 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	4	4
Texture fill rate	1.2 GTexel / s	1.28 GTexel / s
Transistor count	76 million	76 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 4x
Laptop size	medium sized	medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0	9.0
OpenGL	2.0	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	3.2 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	300 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	128 / 64	128
Shared memory	0	0