ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 SE vs ATI Mobility Radeon X600

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 SE and ATI Mobility Radeon X600 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 SE

ATI Mobility Radeon X600

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X600

Around 60% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 250 MHz
Around 60% higher texture fill rate: 1.6 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 500 MHz vs 400 MHz

Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.6 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	500 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 SE
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X600

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 SE	ATI Mobility Radeon X600
PassMark - G3D Mark		50
PassMark - G2D Mark		209

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 SE	ATI Mobility Radeon X600
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8	Rage 9
Code name	M10	M24
Launch date	1 June 2004	1 June 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	848
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	250 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s	1.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count	76 million	75 million
Boost clock speed		400 MHz
Pipelines		4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0	9.0b
OpenGL	2.0	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	3.2 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	250 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	DDR	128
Shared memory		0
Technologies
PCIe