ATI Mobility Radeon vs ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon and ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon

ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

Around 60% higher core clock speed: 230 MHz vs 144 MHz
Around 30% higher texture fill rate: 560 MTexel / s vs 432 MTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 150 nm vs 180 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 32 MB vs 16 MB
Around 27% higher memory clock speed: 366 MHz vs 288 MHz

Core clock speed	230 MHz vs 144 MHz
Texture fill rate	560 MTexel / s vs 432 MTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size	32 MB vs 16 MB
Memory clock speed	366 MHz vs 288 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon	ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
PassMark - G3D Mark		4
PassMark - G2D Mark		103

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon	ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 6	Rage 7
Code name	M6	M7
Launch date	1 December 2001	1 December 2001
Place in performance rating	not rated	1355
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	144 MHz	230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	180 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	432 MTexel / s	560 MTexel / s
Transistor count	30 million	60 million
Boost clock speed		280 MHz
Pipelines		2
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		27 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	AGP 4x
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	7.0	7.0
OpenGL	1.3	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	16 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	2.304 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	288 MHz	366 MHz
Memory type	DDR	64 / 128
Shared memory		0