ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 vs ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 and ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum 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 9600

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 month(s) later
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 172 vs 170
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 June 2004 vs 1 March 2004
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 172 vs 170

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum

  • Around 73% higher core clock speed: 520 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • 6.9x more texture fill rate: 8.32 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
  • 2.8x more memory clock speed: 1120 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 81 vs 36
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 520 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate 8.32 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size 256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1120 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 81 vs 36

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
172
170
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
36
81
Name ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum
PassMark - G2D Mark 172 170
PassMark - G3D Mark 36 81

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum

Essentials

Architecture Rage 8 R400
Code name M10 R423
Launch date 1 June 2004 1 March 2004
Place in performance rating 990 991
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 300 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 520 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 130 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 4
Texture fill rate 1.2 GTexel / s 8.32 GTexel / s
Transistor count 76 million 160 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 63 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface AGP 8x PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 9.0 9.0c
OpenGL 2.0 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 3.2 GB / s 35.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 300 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 400 MHz 1120 MHz
Memory type 128 / 64 GDDR3
Shared memory 0