ATI Radeon X550 HyperMemory vs ATI Mobility Radeon X800 XT

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X550 HyperMemory and ATI Mobility Radeon X800 XT 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 X550 HyperMemory

ATI Mobility Radeon X800 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X550 HyperMemory

Videocard is newer: launch date 0 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 130 nm

Launch date	1 July 2005 vs 1 June 2005
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 130 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X800 XT

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 480 MHz vs 400 MHz
4.8x more texture fill rate: 7.68 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
2.2x more memory clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 500 MHz

Core clock speed	480 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	7.68 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	1100 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon X550 HyperMemory	ATI Mobility Radeon X800 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 9	R400
Code name	RV370	M28
Launch date	1 July 2005	1 June 2005
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	480 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	1.6 GTexel / s	7.68 GTexel / s
Transistor count	107 million	160 million
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
API support
DirectX	9.0	9.0b
OpenGL	2.0	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s	35.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	1100 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR3