Radeon 780M vs Mobility 9600

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Primary details

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated283
Place by popularitynot in top-10057
ArchitectureRage 8 (2002−2006)RDNA 3
GPU code nameM10Phoenix
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 June 2004 (20 years ago)5 January 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores6768
Core clock speed2 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speed300 MHz3000 MHz
Number of transistors76 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data54 Watt (35 - 54 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate1.200139.2

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Mobility Radeon 9600 and Radeon 780M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount128 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 / 64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed400 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth3.2 GB/sno data
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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0 (9_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2004 5 January 2023
Chip lithography 130 nm 4 nm

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon 9600 and Radeon 780M. We've got no test results to judge.


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ATI Mobility Radeon 9600
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