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1:01 PM - April 16, 2003 by
Lars Weinand
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: introducing, ati
Topics: AMD/ATI, Buyer's Guides, NVIDIA
Syndication:
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: introducing, ati
Topics: AMD/ATI, Buyer's Guides, NVIDIA
Syndication:
Table of Contents:
Radeon 9600 PRO Card Versions

- 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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