ATI Radeon 9600 PRO vs ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9600 PRO and ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 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 9600 PRO

ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9600 PRO

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 166 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 180 nm
4.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 27 vs 6

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 October 2003 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 166 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 180 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	27 vs 6

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP

Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 151 vs 148

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	151 vs 148

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon 9600 PRO
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

148

151

Name	ATI Radeon 9600 PRO	ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	27	6
PassMark - G2D Mark	148	151

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 9600 PRO	ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8	Rage 6
Code name	RV350	RS250
Launch date	1 October 2003	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1101	1102
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	166 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	180 nm
Texture fill rate	1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	18 Watt
Transistor count	76 million	30 million
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	9.0	7.0
OpenGL	2.0	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	600 MHz
Memory type	DDR
Shared memory		yes