ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 vs ATI Radeon 9500

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 and ATI Radeon 9500 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 Radeon 9500

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9600

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 9% higher core clock speed: 300 MHz vs 275 MHz
Around 9% higher texture fill rate: 1.2 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
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

Launch date	1 June 2004 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	300 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.2 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9500

Around 35% higher memory clock speed: 540 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 173 vs 172

Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed	540 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	173 vs 172

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9500

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

172

173

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600	ATI Radeon 9500
PassMark - G2D Mark	172	173
PassMark - G3D Mark	36	36

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600	ATI Radeon 9500
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8	Rage 8
Code name	M10	R300
Launch date	1 June 2004	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1024	1028
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	300 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	4
Texture fill rate	1.2 GTexel / s	1.1 GTexel / s
Transistor count	76 million	110 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		12 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
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0	9.0
OpenGL	2.0	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	3.2 GB / s	17.28 GB / s
Memory bus width	300 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	540 MHz
Memory type	128 / 64	DDR
Shared memory	0