ATI Radeon 9550 vs ATI Radeon 8500

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9550 and ATI Radeon 8500 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 9550

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
  • 5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 35 vs 7
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 October 2003 vs 14 August 2001
Manufacturing process technology 130 nm vs 150 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 35 vs 7

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 8500

  • Around 10% higher core clock speed: 275 MHz vs 250 MHz
  • 2.2x more texture fill rate: 2.2 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
  • Around 38% higher memory clock speed: 550 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 146 vs 145
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 275 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate 2.2 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed 550 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 146 vs 145

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon 9550
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 8500

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
35
7
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
145
146
Name ATI Radeon 9550 ATI Radeon 8500
PassMark - G3D Mark 35 7
PassMark - G2D Mark 145 146

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon 9550 ATI Radeon 8500

Essentials

Architecture Rage 8 Rage 7
Code name RV350 R200
Launch date 1 October 2003 14 August 2001
Place in performance rating 1133 1136
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 250 MHz 275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 130 nm 150 nm
Texture fill rate 1 GTexel / s 2.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count 76 million 60 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 8.1
OpenGL 2.0 1.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 64 MB
Memory bandwidth 6.4 GB / s 8.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 400 MHz 550 MHz
Memory type DDR DDR