ATI Radeon 9800 PRO Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon 9250 PCI

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9800 PRO Mac Edition and ATI Radeon 9250 PCI videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Radeon 9800 PRO Mac Edition

ATI Radeon 9250 PCI

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9800 PRO Mac Edition

Around 58% higher core clock speed: 378 MHz vs 240 MHz
Around 69% higher memory clock speed: 676 MHz vs 400 MHz

Core clock speed	378 MHz vs 240 MHz
Memory clock speed	676 MHz vs 400 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9250 PCI

317.5x more texture fill rate: 960 MTexel / s vs 3.024 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	960 MTexel / s vs 3.024 GTexel / s

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 9800 PRO Mac Edition	ATI Radeon 9250 PCI
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 9	Rage 7
Code name	R360	RV280
Launch date	4 March 2004	1 March 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	378 MHz	240 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	3.024 GTexel / s	960 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt
Transistor count	117 million	36 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP Pro 8x	PCI
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	9.0	8.1
OpenGL	2.0	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	21.63 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	676 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR