ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL vs ATI Radeon 9800

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL and ATI Radeon 9800 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL

ATI Radeon 9800

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 8% higher core clock speed: 350 MHz vs 325 MHz
Around 8% higher texture fill rate: 2.8 GTexel / s vs 2.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 150 nm
Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 660 MHz vs 580 MHz
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 60 vs 58

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 March 2005 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	350 MHz vs 325 MHz
Texture fill rate	2.8 GTexel / s vs 2.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 150 nm
Memory clock speed	660 MHz vs 580 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	60 vs 58

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9800

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 191 vs 189

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	191 vs 189

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9800

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

189

191

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL	ATI Radeon 9800
PassMark - G2D Mark	189	191
PassMark - G3D Mark	60	58

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL	ATI Radeon 9800
Essentials
Architecture	R400	Rage 8
Code name	M26	R350
Launch date	1 March 2005	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	919	921
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	350 MHz	325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	2.8 GTexel / s	2.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count	120 million	117 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		37 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 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0b	9.0
OpenGL	2.0	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	10.56 GB / s	18.56 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	660 MHz	580 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR