ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP vs ATI Radeon X800 PRO

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP and ATI Radeon X800 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP

ATI Radeon X800 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 130 nm
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 191 vs 190

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	28 February 2007 vs 1 May 2004
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	191 vs 190

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 PRO

Around 58% higher core clock speed: 475 MHz vs 300 MHz
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 65 vs 27

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	475 MHz vs 300 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	65 vs 27

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X800 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

191

190

Name	ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP	ATI Radeon X800 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	27	65
PassMark - G2D Mark	191	190

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP	ATI Radeon X800 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	R400	R400
Code name	RS690	R423
Launch date	28 February 2007	1 May 2004
Place in performance rating	919	921
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	300 MHz	475 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	130 nm
Transistor count	120 million	160 million
Texture fill rate		5.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		48 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	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0b	9.0c
OpenGL	2.0	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		900 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3