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.

 

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 1235
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