ATi's Radeon 8500 Is Final Or Something Like That ...
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Facts Only, Continued
Here's a quick comparison of the Radeon 8500 with its competitors from NVIDIA:
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| Header Cell - Column 0 | Radeon 8500 | GeForce3 Ti500 | GeForce3 | GeForce3 Ti200 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engine | Programmable T&L (ATi "Charisma Engine II ") | Programmable T&L ("vertex & pixel shader ") | Programmable T&L ("vertex & pixel shader ") | Programmable T&L ("vertex & pixel shader ") |
| Core Clock | 275 MHz | 240 MHz | 200 MHz | 175 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 550 MHz | 500 MHz | 460 MHz | 400 MHz |
| Theoretical Peak Pixel Fill Rate | 1100 Mpixel/s | 960 Mpixel/s | 800 Mpixel/s | 700 Mpixel/s |
| Peak Memory Bandwidth | 8800 MB/s (plus "HyperZ II ") | 8000 MB/s (plus "light speed memory architecture ") | 7360 MB/s (plus "light speed memory architecture ") | 6400 MB/s (plus "light speed memory architecture ") |
| Typical Memory Configuration | 64 MB DDR SDRAM | 64 MB DDR SDRAM | 64 MB DDR SDRAM | 64 MB DDR SDRAM |
Radeon 8500 comes with superior memory bandwidth as well as theoretical fill rate, the historically most important figures to estimate 3D-performance of a graphics card.
Here's the same for Radeon 7500:
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| Header Cell - Column 0 | Radeon 7500 | GeForce2 Ultra | GeForce2 Ti | GeForce2 Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engine | Fixed Function T&L | Fixed Function T&L | Fixed Function T&L | Fixed Function T&L |
| Core Clock | 290 MHz | 250 MHz | 250 MHz | 200 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 460 MHz | 460 MHz | 400 MHz | 400 MHz |
| Theoretical Peak Pixel Fill Rate | 580 Mpixel/s | 1000 Mpixel/s | 1000 Mpixel/s | 800 Mpixel/s |
| Peak Memory Bandwidth | 7360 MB/s | 7360 MB/s | 6400 MB/s | 6400 MB/s |
| Typical Memory Configuration | 64 MB DDR SDRAM | 64 MB DDR SDRAM | 64 MB DDR SDRAM | 64 MB DDR SDRAM |
Radeon 7500 may have a lower theoretical fill rate than the rest, but the much more important memory bandwidth is on par with the good old GeForce2 Ultra and clearly superior to other GeForce2 cards.
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