ATI Radeon 9800 XT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon 9250 PCI

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9800 XT 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 XT Mac Edition

ATI Radeon 9250 PCI

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9800 XT Mac Edition

Around 72% higher core clock speed: 412 MHz vs 240 MHz
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Around 83% higher memory clock speed: 730 MHz vs 400 MHz

Core clock speed	412 MHz vs 240 MHz
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	730 MHz vs 400 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9250 PCI

290.9x more texture fill rate: 960 MTexel / s vs 3.3 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	960 MTexel / s vs 3.3 GTexel / s

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 9800 XT Mac Edition	ATI Radeon 9250 PCI
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 9	Rage 7
Code name	R360	RV280
Launch date	14 March 2004	1 March 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	412 MHz	240 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	3.3 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	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	23.36 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	730 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR