ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP and ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP

ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 20% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 333 MHz
3.6x more texture fill rate: 4.8 GTexel / s vs 1.332 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 130 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
2.5x more memory clock speed: 980 MHz vs 400 MHz
2.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 115 vs 43

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 October 2005 vs 1 June 2004
Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 333 MHz
Texture fill rate	4.8 GTexel / s vs 1.332 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	980 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	115 vs 43

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 163 vs 162

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	163 vs 162

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

162

163

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

115

Name	ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO
PassMark - G2D Mark	162	163
PassMark - G3D Mark	115	43

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	R400	Rage 8
Code name	R430	M10
Launch date	1 October 2005	1 June 2004
Place in performance rating	1037	1038
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	333 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	4.8 GTexel / s	1.332 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	49 Watt
Transistor count	160 million	76 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0b	9.0
OpenGL	2.0	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	31.36 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	980 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR