ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 vs ATI FireGL V3200

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 and ATI FireGL V3200 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X1600

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
  • Around 34% higher memory clock speed: 940 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 92 vs 85
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 February 2006 vs 1 September 2004
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 940 MHz vs 700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 92 vs 85

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V3200

  • Around 11% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • Around 11% higher texture fill rate: 2 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Core clock speed 500 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 2 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon X1600
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V3200

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
92
85
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
236
236
Name ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 ATI FireGL V3200
PassMark - G3D Mark 92 85
PassMark - G2D Mark 236 236

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 ATI FireGL V3200

Essentials

Architecture R500 Rage 9
Code name M56 RV380
Launch date 1 February 2006 1 September 2004
Place in performance rating 737 740
Type Laptop Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 450 MHz
Core clock speed 450 MHz 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 12
Texture fill rate 1.8 GTexel / s 2 GTexel / s
Transistor count 157 million 75 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 46 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 9.0c 9.0b
OpenGL 2.0 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 15.04 GB / s 11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 470 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 940 MHz 700 MHz
Memory type 128 DDR
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Powerplay 6.0