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12:06 PM - January 22, 2002 by Lars Weinand
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: ati, radeon, 7500
Topics: AMD/ATI

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Card Comparison

Graphic Card Comparison
Chip Name ATI AIW
RADEON
ATI AIW RADEON 7500 ATI AIW RADEON 8500 DV NVIDIA Personal Cinema
Core - RV200 R200 NV 11 (MX400)
Manuf. Process 0.18 Micron 0.15 Micron 0.15 Micron 0.18 Micron
Chipclock 166 MHz 260 MHz 230 MHz 200 MHz
Memoryclock 333 MHz (DDR) 360 MHz (DDR) 380 MHz (DDR) 166 MHz
Memory Type SDRAM/SGRAM SGRAM SGRAM SDRAM
Memory Bus 128Bit DDR 128Bit DDR 128Bit DDR 128Bit SD
Memory Size 32 MB 64 MB 64 MB 64 MB
RAMDAC (S) 350 MHz 2x 400 MHz 2x 400 MHz 1x 350 MHz 1x 150 (?)MHz
Businterface AGP 1x/2x/4x AGP 1x/2x/4x AGP 1x/2x/4x AGP 1x/2x/4x
T&L 2nd. Generation 2rd. Generation 3rd. Generation 2rd. Generation
DirectX Generation DX7 DX7 DX8 DX7
Pixel Shader No No Yes No
Vertex Shader No No Yes No
Truform No No Yes No
Render Pipelines 2 2 4 2
Texturen per Pipe 3 3 3 2
TV-Tuner Yes Yes Yes Yes
Video In / Out Yes Yes Yes Yes
TV-Out DualView Yes Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 1394 Firewire No No Yes No
Remote Controll No Yes (RF) Yes (RF) Yes (IR)
Price Pricegrabber Official: $199 Pricegrabber
Official: $399
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We've already covered the hardware features of both the R200 and the RV200 chips in detail in previous articles. The RV200's video features are completely identical to those of the old RADEON ("Video Immersion"). The R200 (RADEON 8500) uses the extended "Video Immersion II".


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