ATI Radeon 9550 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9200

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9550 and ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 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 9550

ATI Mobility Radeon 9200

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9550

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
Around 25% higher core clock speed: 250 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 64 MB vs 32 MB
11.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 35 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 October 2003 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	250 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	64 MB vs 32 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	35 vs 3

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9200

800x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Around 15% higher memory clock speed: 460 MHz vs 400 MHz

Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	460 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon 9550
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9200

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

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Name	ATI Radeon 9550	ATI Mobility Radeon 9200
PassMark - G3D Mark	35	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	145	145

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 9550	ATI Mobility Radeon 9200
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8	Rage 7
Code name	RV350	M9+
Launch date	1 October 2003	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1132	1134
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	250 MHz	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Transistor count	76 million	36 million
Boost clock speed		250 MHz
Pipelines		4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	9.0	8.1
OpenGL	2.0	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	14.72 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	460 MHz
Memory type	DDR	128
Shared memory		0