VIA Chrome9 HC vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Comparative analysis of VIA Chrome9 HC and ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the VIA Chrome9 HC

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 19% higher boost clock speed: 250 MHz vs 210 MHz
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 168 vs 166
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 March 2007 vs 1 June 2004
Boost clock speed 250 MHz vs 210 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 168 vs 166

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

  • 250x more core clock speed: 250 MHz vs 1 MHz
  • 2x more pipelines: 4 vs 2
  • 7.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 30 vs 4
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 250 MHz vs 1 MHz
Pipelines 4 vs 2
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 30 vs 4

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: VIA Chrome9 HC
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4
30
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
168
166
Name VIA Chrome9 HC ATI Mobility Radeon 9550
PassMark - G3D Mark 4 30
PassMark - G2D Mark 168 166

Compare specifications (specs)

VIA Chrome9 HC ATI Mobility Radeon 9550

Essentials

Code name VN896 M12
Launch date 1 March 2007 1 June 2004
Place in performance rating 1020 1023
Type Laptop Laptop
Architecture Rage 9

Technical info

Boost clock speed 250 MHz 210 MHz
Core clock speed 1 MHz 250 MHz
Pipelines 2 4
Manufacturing process technology 130 nm
Texture fill rate 1 GTexel / s
Transistor count 76 million

API support

DirectX onboard 9.0
OpenGL 2.0

Memory

Shared memory 1 no
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB
Memory bandwidth 3.89 GB / s
Memory bus width 183 Bit
Memory clock speed 486 MHz
Memory type 64

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface AGP 4x
Laptop size medium sized