ATI Radeon X300 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X600

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X300 and ATI Mobility Radeon X600 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

ATI Radeon X300

ATI Mobility Radeon X600

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X300

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 130 nm

Launch date	1 September 2004 vs 1 June 2004
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 130 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X600

Around 7% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 375 MHz
Around 7% higher texture fill rate: 1.6 GTexel / s vs 1.5 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 500 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 50 vs 41

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 375 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.6 GTexel / s vs 1.5 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	500 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	50 vs 41

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon X300
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X600

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

209

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Radeon X300	ATI Mobility Radeon X600
PassMark - G2D Mark	209	209
PassMark - G3D Mark	41	50

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon X300	ATI Mobility Radeon X600
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 9	Rage 9
Code name	RV370	M24
Launch date	1 September 2004	1 June 2004
Place in performance rating	847	848
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	375 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	1.5 GTexel / s	1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	36 Watt
Transistor count	107 million	75 million
Boost clock speed		400 MHz
Pipelines		4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0	9.0b
OpenGL	2.0	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	250 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	DDR	128
Shared memory		0
Technologies
PCIe