ATI Radeon 9500 vs ATI Mobility 9700

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	1451
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	0.52
Architecture	Rage 9 (2003−2006)	Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code name	M11	R300
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	1 June 2004 (20 years ago)	1 March 2003 (21 year 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 cores	6	no data
Core clock speed	450 MHz	275 MHz
Boost clock speed	450 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	76 million	110 million
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	12 Watt
Texture fill rate	1.800	1.100
ROPs	4	4
TMUs	4	4

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 size	medium sized	no data
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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 type	DDR	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	64 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	275 MHz	270 MHz
Memory bandwidth	8.8 GB/s	17.28 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

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 Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX	9.0	9.0 (9_0)
OpenGL	2.0	2.0
OpenCL	N/A	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 June 2004	1 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	64 MB
Chip lithography	130 nm	150 nm

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