ATI Radeon 9550 vs ATI Radeon 7000

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9550 and ATI Radeon 7000 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 Radeon 7000

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9550

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 37% higher core clock speed: 250 MHz vs 183 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 180 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 64 MB vs 32 MB
Around 9% higher memory clock speed: 400 MHz vs 366 MHz
3.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 35 vs 9
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 145 vs 144

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 October 2003 vs 19 February 2001
Core clock speed	250 MHz vs 183 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size	64 MB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	400 MHz vs 366 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	35 vs 9
PassMark - G2D Mark	145 vs 144

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 7000

549x more texture fill rate: 549 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	549 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon 9550
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 7000

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

145

144

Name	ATI Radeon 9550	ATI Radeon 7000
PassMark - G3D Mark	35	9
PassMark - G2D Mark	145	144

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 9550	ATI Radeon 7000
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8	Rage 6
Code name	RV350	RV100
Launch date	1 October 2003	19 February 2001
Place in performance rating	1134	1137
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	250 MHz	183 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	180 nm
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s	549 MTexel / s
Transistor count	76 million	30 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		23 Watt
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 8x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	9.0	7.0
OpenGL	2.0	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	2.928 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	366 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR