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.

ATI Mobility Radeon 9600

ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum

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

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	999	1000
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