ATI Radeon 9600 XT vs ATI Radeon 8500

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9600 XT 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.

ATI Radeon 9600 XT

ATI Radeon 8500

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9600 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 82% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 275 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
Around 5% lower typical power consumption: 22 Watt vs 23 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB
Around 9% higher memory clock speed: 600 MHz vs 550 MHz
5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 35 vs 7
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 147 vs 146

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 October 2003 vs 14 August 2001
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	22 Watt vs 23 Watt
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	600 MHz vs 550 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	35 vs 7
PassMark - G2D Mark	147 vs 146

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 8500

Around 10% higher texture fill rate: 2.2 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	2.2 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon 9600 XT
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 8500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

147

146

Name	ATI Radeon 9600 XT	ATI Radeon 8500
PassMark - G3D Mark	35	7
PassMark - G2D Mark	147	146

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 9600 XT	ATI Radeon 8500
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 9	Rage 7
Code name	RV360	R200
Launch date	1 October 2003	14 August 2001
Place in performance rating	1118	1121
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	2 GTexel / s	2.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	22 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	76 million	60 million
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	128 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	9.6 GB / s	8.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	600 MHz	550 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR