T400 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9700

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated471
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data21.47
ArchitectureRage 9 (2003−2006)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameM11TU117
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date1 June 2004 (20 years ago)6 May 2021 (3 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 cores6384
Core clock speed450 MHz420 MHz
Boost clock speed450 MHz1425 MHz
Number of transistors76 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data30 Watt
Texture fill rate1.80034.20
Floating-point processing powerno data1.094 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs424

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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 3.0 x16
Widthno data1-slot
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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount256 MB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed275 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth8.8 GB/s80 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 outputs3x mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.012 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2004 6 May 2021
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 12 nm

T400 has an age advantage of 16 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 983.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon 9700 and T400. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon 9700 is a notebook card while T400 is a workstation one.


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