ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP vs ATI Radeon 9800

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 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 1270 IGP

ATI Radeon 9800

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 150 nm

Launch date	28 February 2007 vs 1 March 2003
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 150 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9800

Around 8% higher core clock speed: 325 MHz vs 300 MHz
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 58 vs 27

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	325 MHz vs 300 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	58 vs 27

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9800

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

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Name	ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP	ATI Radeon 9800
PassMark - G3D Mark	27	58
PassMark - G2D Mark	191	191

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 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	918	921
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	300 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