ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 IGP vs ATI Radeon 9800

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 IGP and ATI Radeon 9800 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 Xpress 1200 IGP

ATI Radeon 9800

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 8% higher core clock speed: 350 MHz vs 325 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 150 nm
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 192 vs 191

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	28 February 2007 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	350 MHz vs 325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 150 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	192 vs 191

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9800

Around 61% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 58 vs 36

Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	58 vs 36

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 IGP
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9800

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

192

191

Name	ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 IGP	ATI Radeon 9800
PassMark - G3D Mark	36	58
PassMark - G2D Mark	192	191

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 IGP	ATI Radeon 9800
Essentials
Architecture	R400	Rage 8
Code name	RS690	R350
Launch date	28 February 2007	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	911	915
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	350 MHz	325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	150 nm
Transistor count	120 million	117 million
Texture fill rate		2.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		37 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0b	9.0
OpenGL	2.0	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		18.56 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		580 MHz
Memory type		DDR