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ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X300 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9700

ATI Mobility Radeon 9600

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The predecessor version of the ATI Radeon 9700 Mobility differs by its low clock speed and the worse Z-compression (was improved with 9700). In the beginning it was the fastest graphic card, which was available for notebooks, but nowadays it is part of the lower performance segment.

Beware of versions with 32 MB memory, in most cases they only have a 64 bit memory bus, which deterioriates the speed severely.

ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro was a higher clocked version with 350 MHz core- and memory clock (compared with the 300 MHz in the standard version). Further only a version with 128 MB was allowed to get this name.

ATI Mobility Radeon X300

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ATI Mobility Radeon X300 is a small graphic card of the 1000 series for notebooks from ATI. It has been replaced by the faster X1300. The performance is somewhat above the current integrated graphics of Intel GMA950. Technically it is similar to X600, but only with 64 bit instead of 128 bit memory interface.

In a Benq Joybook 5200 G a user found a 128 bit version of X300 (therefore more a X600)

Aero Glass of Windows Vista runs on the Radeon X300.

ATI Mobility Radeon 9700

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ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 is the AGP pendant of the ATI Mobility Radeon X600. In these days it was the fastest available graphic card for notebooks and started the time of gaming noteboks. Despite its name, technically it is not related to the desktop graphic card 9700 (Pro), but with the 9600. Compared with the Mobility Radeon 9600 it is only higher clocked. The performance is like with X1400.

The version with only 32 MB memory can have a 64 bit memory interface. Then it is clearly slower!

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ATI Mobility Radeon 9600ATI Mobility Radeon X300ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
Mobility Radeon 9x00 Series
Mobility Radeon 9800 8/4 cores @ 0.35 GHz256 Bit @ 300 MHz
Mobility Radeon 9700 4/2 cores @ 0.45 GHz128 / 64 Bit @ 275 MHz
Mobility Radeon 9600 4/2 cores @ 0.3 GHz128 / 64 Bit @ 300 MHz
Mobility Radeon 9550 4/2 cores @ 0.21 GHz64 Bit @ 183 MHz
Mobility Radeon X700 8/6 cores @ 0.35 GHz128 Bit @ 350 MHz
Mobility Radeon X600 4/2 cores @ 0.4 GHz128 Bit @ 250 MHz
Mobility Radeon X300 4/2 cores @ 0.35 GHz64 Bit @ 250 MHz
Mobility Radeon 9800 8/4 cores @ 0.35 GHz256 Bit @ 300 MHz
Mobility Radeon 9700 4/2 cores @ 0.45 GHz128 / 64 Bit @ 275 MHz
Mobility Radeon 9600 4/2 cores @ 0.3 GHz128 / 64 Bit @ 300 MHz
Mobility Radeon 9550 4/2 cores @ 0.21 GHz64 Bit @ 183 MHz
CodenameM10M22M11
Pipelines4 / 2 Pixel- / Vertexshader4 / 2 Pixel- / Vertexshader4 / 2 Pixel- / Vertexshader
Core Speed300 MHz350 MHz450 MHz
Memory Speed300 MHz250 MHz275 MHz
Memory Bus Width128 / 64 Bit64 Bit128 / 64 Bit
Memory TypeDDRDDR/DDR2DDR
Max. Amount of Memory128 MB256 MB
Shared Memorynonono
APIDirectX 9, Shader 2.0DirectX 9, Shader 2.0DirectX 9, Shader 2.0
technology130 nm130 nm130 nm
FeaturesPowerplay 4.0, Hyper-Z II, SmartShader 2.0130nm, PCIe, SMOOTHVISION 2.1, SMARTSHADER 2.0, POWERPLAY 5.0 und VPU RECOVER ISmartshader 2.0, Smoothvision 2.1, Powerplay 4.0
Notebook Sizemedium sizedmedium sized
Date of Announcement01.06.2004 08.06.2005 01.06.2004
Information9600 Pro mit 350 / 350 MHz Taktraten und 128 MB Speicher
Link to Manufacturer Pagehttp://www.ati.com/products/mobilityrade...http://www.ati.com/products/mobilityrade...http://www.ati.com/products/mobilityrade...

Benchmarks

3DMark 2001SE - 3DMark 2001 - Standard
min: 7780     avg: 8490     median: 8490 (9%)     max: 9200 Points
min: 7000     avg: 8647     median: 8646.5 (9%)     max: 10293 Points
10000 Points (10%)
3DMark 03 - 3DMark 03 - Standard
2500 Points (1%)
min: 1350     avg: 2097     median: 2097 (1%)     max: 2844 Points
min: 2779     avg: 2890     median: 2889.5 (2%)     max: 3000 Points
3DMark 05 - 3DMark 05 - Standard
min: 900     avg: 994     median: 994 (1%)     max: 1088 Points
1200 Points (1%)
3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Score Unknown Settings + ATI Mobility Radeon X300
3DMark 06
200 Points (0%)
3DMark 06 - Score Unknown Settings + ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
280 Points (0%)
3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 + ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
3DMark 06
424 Points (1%)

Average Benchmarks ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 → 100% n=2

Average Benchmarks ATI Mobility Radeon X300 → 93% n=2

Average Benchmarks ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 → 117% n=2

- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation

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