ATI Radeon X850 PRO vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9700

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X850 PRO and ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Radeon X850 PRO

ATI Mobility Radeon 9700

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X850 PRO

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
Around 13% higher core clock speed: 507 MHz vs 450 MHz
3.4x more texture fill rate: 6.08 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Around 89% higher memory clock speed: 1040 MHz vs 550 MHz
2.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 73 vs 27

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 December 2004 vs 1 June 2004
Core clock speed	507 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	6.08 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	1040 MHz vs 550 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	73 vs 27

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9700

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 158 vs 157

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	158 vs 157

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon X850 PRO
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9700

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

157

158

Name	ATI Radeon X850 PRO	ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
PassMark - G3D Mark	73	27
PassMark - G2D Mark	157	158

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon X850 PRO	ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
Essentials
Architecture	R400	Rage 9
Code name	R480	M11
Launch date	1 December 2004	1 June 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$279
Place in performance rating	1096	1097
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	507 MHz	450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	6.08 GTexel / s	1.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count	160 million	76 million
Boost clock speed		450 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	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0b	9.0
OpenGL	2.0	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	33.3 GB / s	8.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	275 Bit
Memory clock speed	1040 MHz	550 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	128 / 64
Shared memory		0