ATI Radeon 9500 vs ATI Mobility HD 5145

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code nameM92R300
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 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 cores80no data
Core clock speed720 MHz275 MHz
Number of transistors242 million110 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt12 Watt
Texture fill rate5.7601.100
Floating-point processing power0.1152 TFLOPSno data
ROPs44
TMUs84

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16AGP 8x
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 typeGDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB64 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz270 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s17.28 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 1 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 64 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 150 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 12 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5145 has an age advantage of 6 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 172.7% more advanced lithography process.

ATI 9500, on the other hand, has 25% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 5145 and Radeon 9500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 5145 is a notebook card while Radeon 9500 is a desktop one.


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