ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 vs VIA Chrome9 HC

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 and VIA Chrome9 HC 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600

VIA Chrome9 HC

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
500x more core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 1 MHz
60x more pipelines: 120 vs 2
42x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 168 vs 4
Around 59% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 267 vs 168

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	14 May 2007 vs 1 March 2007
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 1 MHz
Pipelines	120 vs 2
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	168 vs 4
PassMark - G2D Mark	267 vs 168

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600
GPU 2: VIA Chrome9 HC

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

168

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

267

168

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600	VIA Chrome9 HC
PassMark - G3D Mark	168	4
PassMark - G2D Mark	267	168
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1690

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600	VIA Chrome9 HC
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale
Code name	M76	VN896
Launch date	14 May 2007	1 March 2007
Place in performance rating	1018	1019
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	1 MHz
Floating-point performance	120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm
Pipelines	120	2
Texture fill rate	4 GTexel / s
Transistor count	390 million
Boost clock speed		250 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.0	onboard
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	1
Technologies
PowerPlay 7.0