ATI Radeon 9250 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9250 and ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP 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 9250

ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9250

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later

Launch date	1 March 2004 vs 23 June 2003

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 300 MHz vs 240 MHz
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 128 vs 127

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	300 MHz vs 240 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	128 vs 127

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon 9250
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

127

128

Name	ATI Radeon 9250	ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	3	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	127	128

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 9250	ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 7	Rage 7
Code name	RV280	RS300
Launch date	1 March 2004	23 June 2003
Place in performance rating	1234	1236
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	240 MHz	300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	960 MTexel / s
Transistor count	36 million	76 million
Boost clock speed		400 MHz
Pipelines		2
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	8.1	8.1
OpenGL	1.4	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR
Shared memory		0