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Radeon 9600 PRO Card Versions

Introducing ATi's New Middle Class: The Radeon 9600 PRO
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  • Radeon 9600 PRO 128 MB DDR (400/600); available: April 2003; price: $169-$199;
  • Radeon 9600 64/128 MB DDR (325/400); available: April 2003; price: $149-$169.

And the features of the Radeon 9600 VPU (RV350) in summary:

  • DirectX 9;
  • ~75 million transistors;
  • Four pixel pipelines (4x1 design);
  • Two vertex shader units;
  • 0.13 micron manufacturing process;
  • 128 bit DDR Memory (DDR-II ready);
  • Up to 128 MB Memory;
  • SmartShader 2.0;
  • SmoothVision 2.1 (optimized FSAA, AA and memory controller; 6:1 color compression);
  • HyperZ III+ (8:1 Z-compression).
  ATI Radeon 9500 ATI Radeon 9500 PRO ATI Radeon 9600 PRO NVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti 4200-8x NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra
Chip Technology 256 bit 256 bit 256 bit 256 bit 256 bit
Process 0.15 Micron 0.15 Micron 0.13 Micron 0.15 Micron 0.13 Micron
Transistors ~107 Mio ~107 Mio ~75 Mio ~63 Mio ~80 Mio
Memory Bus 128 bit DDR 128 bit DDR 128 bit DDR 128 bit DDR 128 bit DDR
Memory Bandwidth 8.8 GB/s 8.8 GB/s 9.6 GB/s 8.0 GB/s 11.2 GB/s
Pixel Fillrate 1.1 Gigapixel/s 2.2 Gigapixel/s 1.6 Gigapixel/s 1.1 Gigapixel/s 1.4 Gigapixel/s
Anti Aliased Fillrate 6.6 Billion AA Samples/s 13.2 Billion AA Samples/s 9.6 Billion AA Samples/s 4 Billion AA Samples/s 5.6 Billion AA Samples/s
AGP Bus 1x/2x/4x/8x 1x/2x/4x/8x 1x/2x/4x/8x 1x/2x/4x/8x 1x/2x/4x/8x
Memory 64/128 MB 128 MB 128 MB 64/128 MB 128 MB
GPU Clock 275 MHz 275 MHz 400 MHz 250 MHz 350 MHz
Memory Clock 270 MHz (540 DDR) 275 MHz (550 DDR) 300 MHz (600 DDR) 257 MHz (514 DDR) 350 MHz (700 DDR)
Memory -unknown BGA 3.6 ns -unknown BGA 3.1 ns -unknown
Vertex Shader 4 4 2 2 1 (Array)
Pixel Pipelines 4 8 4 4 4
Texture Units Per Pipe 1 1 1 2 1
Textures per Texture Unit 16 16 16 4 16
Vertex S. Version 2.0 2.0 2.0 1.1 2.0
Pixel S. Version 2.0 2.0 2.0 1.3 2.0
DirectX Generation 9.0 9.0 9.0 8.1 9.0
FSAA Modi MultiSampling MultiSampling MultiSampling MultiSampling MultiSampling
Memory Optmizations Hyper Z III Hyper Z III Hyper Z III+ LMA II IntelliSample
Optmizations SmartShader 2.0
SmoothVision 2.0
SmartShader 2.0
SmoothVision 2.0
SmartShader 2.0
SmoothVision 2.1
nFiniteFX II
Accuview
CineFX
IntelliSample
Display Outputs 2 2 2 2 2
Chip Internal Ramdacs 2 x 400 MHz 2 x 400 MHz 2 x 400 MHz 2 x 400 MHz 2 x 400 MHz
Chip External Ramdacs - - - - -
Bits per Color Channel 10 10 10 8 10
Special TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStream
Adaptive Filtering
TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStream
Adaptive Filtering
TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStream
Adaptive Filtering
TV Encoder On-Chip;Adaptive Filtering, DirectX 9+
Estimated Price $179 (old price) $199 (old price) $169-$199 $169-$199 $169-$199
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