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ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

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!

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 9800

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ATI Mobility Radeon 9800 is a slim X800 for AGP with energy saving functions and needs a lot of current. Therefore the performance of this card is correspondingly well, but it was rarely used (in a Dell 17" notebook). Nowadays (2008) the performance can be compared to middle class graphics cards.

The videoShader HD technology offers MPEG 1/2/4 decoding acceleration.

ATI Mobility Radeon 9700ATI Mobility Radeon 9600ATI Mobility Radeon 9800
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 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 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
CodenameM11M10M18
Pipelines4 / 2 Pixel- / Vertexshader4 / 2 Pixel- / Vertexshader8 / 4 Pixel- / Vertexshader
Core Speed450 MHz300 MHz350 MHz
Memory Speed275 MHz300 MHz300 MHz
Memory Bus Width128 / 64 Bit128 / 64 Bit256 Bit
Memory TypeDDRDDRDDR2 / DDR3
Max. Amount of Memory256 MB128 MB256 MB
Shared Memorynonono
APIDirectX 9, Shader 2.0DirectX 9, Shader 2.0DirectX 9, Shader 2.0
technology130 nm130 nm130 nm
FeaturesSmartshader 2.0, Smoothvision 2.1, Powerplay 4.0Powerplay 4.0, Hyper-Z II, SmartShader 2.0130nm low-k, Powerplay
Notebook Sizemedium sizedmedium sizedlarge
Date of Announcement01.06.2004 01.06.2004 01.07.2004
Link to Manufacturer Pagewww.ati.comwww.ati.comwww.ati.com
Information9600 Pro mit 350 / 350 MHz Taktraten und 128 MB Speicher110 Mio Transistoren, 130nm
Transistors110 Million

Benchmarks

3DMark 2001SE - 3DMark 2001 - Standard
10000 Points (10%)
min: 7780     avg: 8490     median: 8490 (9%)     max: 9200 Points
17800 Points (18%)
3DMark 03 - 3DMark 03 - Standard
min: 2779     avg: 2890     median: 2889.5 (2%)     max: 3000 Points
2500 Points (1%)
6500 Points (3%)
3DMark 05 - 3DMark 05 - Standard
1200 Points (1%)
2800 Points (3%)
3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Score Unknown Settings + ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
3DMark 06
280 Points (0%)
3DMark 06 - Score Unknown Settings + ATI Mobility Radeon 9800
860 Points (1%)
3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 + ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
3DMark 06
424 Points (1%)

Average Benchmarks ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 → 100% n=2

Average Benchmarks ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 → 86% n=2

Average Benchmarks ATI Mobility Radeon 9800 → 201% n=2

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

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