ATI Radeon 9000 PRO Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon 9250

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9000 PRO Mac Edition and ATI Radeon 9250 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 Radeon 9000 PRO Mac Edition

ATI Radeon 9250

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9000 PRO Mac Edition

Around 15% higher core clock speed: 275 MHz vs 240 MHz
Around 38% higher memory clock speed: 550 MHz vs 400 MHz

Core clock speed	275 MHz vs 240 MHz
Memory clock speed	550 MHz vs 400 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9250

872.7x more texture fill rate: 960 MTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	960 MTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon 9000 PRO Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9250

Name	ATI Radeon 9000 PRO Mac Edition	ATI Radeon 9250
PassMark - G3D Mark		3
PassMark - G2D Mark		127

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 9000 PRO Mac Edition	ATI Radeon 9250
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 7	Rage 7
Code name	RV250	RV280
Launch date	14 March 2004	1 March 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	1234
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	275 MHz	240 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1.1 GTexel / s	960 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	28 Watt
Transistor count	36 million	36 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	8.1	8.1
OpenGL	1.4	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	8.8 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	550 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR