ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 vs ATI FireGL V3400

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureR500 (2005−2007)Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code nameRV530M10
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date1 October 2005 (19 years ago)1 June 2004 (20 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data6
Core clock speed500 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data300 MHz
Number of transistors157 million76 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm130 nm
Texture fill rate2.0001.200
ROPs44
TMUs44

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16AGP 8x
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount128 MB128 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz200 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s3.2 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model3.0no data
OpenGL2.02.0
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2005 1 June 2004
Chip lithography 90 nm 130 nm

ATI FireGL V3400 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 44.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FireGL V3400 and Mobility Radeon 9600. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FireGL V3400 is a workstation card while Mobility Radeon 9600 is a notebook one.


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