ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 vs ATI Radeon 9500

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 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, 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 4570

ATI Radeon 9500

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 10 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 680 MHz vs 275 MHz
4.9x more texture fill rate: 5.44 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 150 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 64 MB
3x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 540 MHz
4.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 149 vs 36

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 January 2009 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	680 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate	5.44 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 540 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	149 vs 36

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9500

9.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 173 vs 19

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	173 vs 19

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

149

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

173

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570	ATI Radeon 9500
PassMark - G3D Mark	149	36
PassMark - G2D Mark	19	173
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1697
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1697

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570	ATI Radeon 9500
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Rage 8
Code name	M92	R300
Launch date	9 January 2009	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1629	1028
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	680 MHz	275 MHz
Floating-point performance	108.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	80
Texture fill rate	5.44 GTexel / s	1.1 GTexel / s
Transistor count	242 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	MXM-II	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	17.28 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	540 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
1x Dual-Link/Single-Link DVI
1x Single-Link DVI Support (all display ports have to be supported by the laptop manufacturer)
DisplayPort support up to 2560x1600
HDMI support up to 1920x1080 (both with 7.1 AC3 Audio)
PCI-E 2.0 x16
Powerplay