Radeon 610M vs ATI 9600 SE

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated793
Place by popularitynot in top-10043
Power efficiencyno data4.32
ArchitectureRage 8 (2002−2007)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRV350Dragon Range
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 October 2003 (21 year ago)3 January 2023 (1 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 coresno data128
Core clock speed325 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2200 MHz
Number of transistors60 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology130 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rate1.30017.60
Floating-point processing powerno data0.5632 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs48
Ray Tracing Coresno data2

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 4.0 x8
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount64 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed200 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth3.2 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0 (9_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2003 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 130 nm 5 nm

Radeon 610M has an age advantage of 19 years, and a 2500% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 9600 SE and Radeon 610M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 9600 SE is a desktop card while Radeon 610M is a notebook one.


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ATI Radeon 9600 SE
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