ATI Delivers: The Radeon 9500 PRO

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A Comparison With The Radeon 9500 PRO

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Header Cell - Column 0	NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4600	NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200-8x	ATI Radeon 9700 PRO	ATI Radeon 9700	ATI Radeon 9500 PRO	ATI Radeon 9500
Chip Technology	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Process	0.15 Micron	0.15 Micron	0.15 Micron	0.15 Micron	0.15 Micron	0.15 Micron
Transistors	63 Mio	63 Mio	~107 Mio	~107 Mio	~107 Mio	-unknown
Memory Bus	128-bit DDR	128-bit DDR	256-bit DDR	256-bit DDR	128-bit DDR	128-bit DDR
Memory Bandwidth	10.4 GB/s	8.0 GB/s	19.8 GB/s	17.6 GB/s	8.8 GB/s	8.8 GB/s
Pixel Fillrate	1.24 Gigapixel/s	1.1 Gigapixel/s	2.6 Gigapixel/s	2.2 Gigapixel/s	2.2 Gigapixel/s	1.1 Gigapixel/s
Anti Aliased Fillrate	4.8 Billion AA Samples/s	4 Billion AA Samples/s	15.6 Billion AA Samples/s	13.2 Billion AA Samples/s	13.2 Billion AA Samples/s	- unknown
Max FSAA Mode	4x(s)	4x(s)	6x	6x	6x	6x
Triangle Transform Rate	136 M Triangles/s	113 M Triangles/s	325 M Triangles/s	275 M Triangles/s	275 M Triangles/s	275 M Triangles/s
AGP Bus	1x/2x/4x	1x/2x/4x/8x	1x/2x/4x/8x	1x/2x/4x/8x	1x/2x/4x/8x	1x/2x/4x/8x
Memory	128 MB	128 MB	128/256 MB	128 MB	128 MB	64 MB
GPU Clock	300 MHz	250 MHz	325 MHz	275 MHz	275 MHz	275 MHz
Memory Clock	325 MHz (650 DDR)	256 MHz (513 DDR)	310 MHz (620 DDR)	270 MHz (540 DDR)	275 MHz (550 DDR)	270 MHz (540 DDR)
Memory	BGA 2.8ns	BGA 3,3-4ns	BGA 2.9 ns	-unknown	BGA 3.6 ns	-unknown
Vertex Shader	2	2	4	4	4	4
Pixel Pipelines	4	4	8	8	8	4
Texture Units Per Pipe	2	2	1	1	1	1
Textures per Texture Unit	4	4	16	16	16	16
Vertex S. Version	1.1	1.1	2	2	2	2
Pixel S. Version	1.3	1.3	2	2	2	2
DirectX Generation	8	8	9	9	9	9
FSAA Modi	MultiSampling	MultiSampling	MultiSampling	MultiSampling	MultiSampling	MultiSampling
Memory Optmizations	LMA II	LMA II	Hyper Z III	Hyper Z III	Hyper Z III	Hyper Z III
Display Outputs	2	2	2	2	2	2
Chip Internal Ramdacs	2 x 350 MHz	2 x 350 MHz	2 x 400 MHz	2 x 400 MHz	2 x 400 MHz	2 x 400 MHz
Chip External Ramdacs	-	-	-	-	-	-
Bits per Color Channel	8	8	10	10	10	10
Special	-	-	TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStreamAdaptive Filtering	TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStreamAdaptive Filtering	TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStreamAdaptive Filtering	TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStreamAdaptive Filtering
Estimated Price	~ $200-300	~ $150-200	$399	$299	$199	$179

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