7500 v 8500

[rossyl]

Ok I know the R8500 is clocked at 275/275 and the
R8500le is clocked at 250/250 and can possibly be overclocked above that.

But what about the 7500 (not the all in wonder)

What are the performance level differences and does it justify the price differences?

A view on game performance from Radeon card owners would be useful as well.

Ross


"If you think too much, you get confused"

 

[AMD_Man]

The Radeon 7500 is a souped up version of the previous generation Radeon cards. It is only partially DX8-compatible as it lacks one key feature for full DX8 hardware support, programmable shaders. The Radeon 7500 also has a core with only two pipelines (rather than 4) running at 290MHz. That gives it a maximum theorectical pixel rate of 580 million pixels per second instead of the the 1.1 billion pixels per second of the Radeon 8500. The Radeon 7500 is an excellent mainstream card that is a good competitor with nVidia cards in the GeForce2 Pro to the GeForce2 Ultra range. It, however, cannot match GeForce3-class cards like nVidia's GeForce3 Ti200. So if you are willing to spend just a little bit more, the Ti200 is the way to go. The Radeon 8500 is in the GeForce3 to GeForce3 Ti500 performance range depending on the game.

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