ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 vs ATI Radeon 8500 LE

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 and ATI Radeon 8500 LE 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 X1600

ATI Radeon 8500 LE

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X1600

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 80% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 250 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 150 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 64 MB
Around 88% higher memory clock speed: 940 MHz vs 500 MHz

Launch date	1 February 2006 vs 4 February 2002
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	940 MHz vs 500 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 8500 LE

Around 11% higher texture fill rate: 2 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	2 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon X1600
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 8500 LE

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon X1600	ATI Radeon 8500 LE
PassMark - G3D Mark	92
PassMark - G2D Mark	236

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon X1600	ATI Radeon 8500 LE
Essentials
Architecture	R500	Rage 7
Code name	M56	R200
Launch date	1 February 2006	4 February 2002
Place in performance rating	775	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	450 MHz
Core clock speed	450 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	12
Texture fill rate	1.8 GTexel / s	2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	157 million	60 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		23 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 4x
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	8.1
OpenGL	2.0	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	15.04 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	470 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	940 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	128	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
Powerplay 6.0