ATi's Radeon 8500 Is Final Or Something Like That ...

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Here's a quick comparison of the Radeon 8500 with its competitors from NVIDIA:

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Header Cell - Column 0 Radeon 8500GeForce3 Ti500GeForce3GeForce3 Ti200
EngineProgrammable 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 Clock275 MHz240 MHz200 MHz175 MHz
Memory Clock550 MHz500 MHz460 MHz400 MHz
Theoretical Peak Pixel Fill Rate1100 Mpixel/s960 Mpixel/s800 Mpixel/s700 Mpixel/s
Peak Memory Bandwidth8800 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 Configuration64 MB DDR SDRAM64 MB DDR SDRAM64 MB DDR SDRAM64 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 7500GeForce2 UltraGeForce2 TiGeForce2 Pro
EngineFixed Function T&LFixed Function T&LFixed Function T&LFixed Function T&L
Core Clock290 MHz250 MHz250 MHz200 MHz
Memory Clock460 MHz460 MHz400 MHz400 MHz
Theoretical Peak Pixel Fill Rate580 Mpixel/s1000 Mpixel/s1000 Mpixel/s800 Mpixel/s
Peak Memory Bandwidth7360 MB/s7360 MB/s6400 MB/s6400 MB/s
Typical Memory Configuration64 MB DDR SDRAM64 MB DDR SDRAM64 MB DDR SDRAM64 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.