ATI Radeon 9000 PRO vs ATI Radeon 9700 PRO

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9000 PRO and ATI Radeon 9700 PRO 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

ATI Radeon 9700 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9700 PRO

Around 18% higher core clock speed: 325 MHz vs 275 MHz
2.4x more texture fill rate: 2.6 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 620 MHz vs 550 MHz

Core clock speed	325 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate	2.6 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	620 MHz vs 550 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon 9000 PRO
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9700 PRO

Name	ATI Radeon 9000 PRO	ATI Radeon 9700 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark		54
PassMark - G2D Mark		149

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 9000 PRO	ATI Radeon 9700 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 7	Rage 8
Code name	RV250	R300
Launch date	1 July 2002	1 July 2002
Place in performance rating	not rated	1100
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	275 MHz	325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1.1 GTexel / s	2.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	28 Watt
Transistor count	36 million	110 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None	Floppy
API support
DirectX	8.1	9.0
OpenGL	1.4	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	8.8 GB / s	19.84 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	550 MHz	620 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR