The Radeon 9700 PRO, Continued

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Header Cell - Column 0	NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4600	ATI Radeon 8500	ATI Radeon 9000 PRO	ATI Radeon 9700 PRO
Chip Technology	256 bit	256 bit	256 bit	256 bit
Process	0.15 Micron	0.15 Micron	0.15 Micron	0.15 Micron
Transistors	63 Mio	60 Mio	-	-
Memory Bus	128 bit DDR	128 bit DDR	128 bit DDR	256 bit DDR
Memory Bandwidth	10.4 GB/s	8.8 GB/s	8.8 GB/s	19.8 GB/s
AGP Bus	1x/2x/4x	1x/2x/4x	1x/2x/4x/8x	1x/2x/4x/8x
Memory	128 MB	64/128 MB	64/128 MB	128/256 MB
GPU Clock	300 MHz	275 MHz	275 MHz	325 MHz
Memory Clock	325 MHz (650 DDR)	MHz 275 (550 DDR)	275 MHz (550 DDR)	310 MHz (620 DDR)
Memory	BGA 2.8ns	SD/BGA 3.3ns	SD	BGA 2.x ns
Vertex Shader	2	2	2	4
Pixel Pipelines	4	4	4	8
Texture Units Per Pipe	2	2	1	1
Textures per Texture Unit	4	3	6	8
Vertex S. Version	1.1	1.1	1.1	2.0
Pixel S. Version	1.3	1.4	1.4	2.0
DirectX Generation	8.0	8.1	8.1	9.0
FSAA Modi	MultiSampling	SuperSampling	SuperSampling	MultiSampling
Memory Optmizations	LMA II	Hyper Z II	Hyper Z II	Hyper Z III
Display Outputs	2	2	2	2
Chip Internal Ramdacs	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	8	10
Special	-	-	TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStream	TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStream
Estimated Price	~ $300-350	$179	$149	$399

Compared to its competitors, the heart of the Radeon 9700, the R300 chip, can boast some very impressive technical specifications. Weighing in at 100 to 110 million transistors (ATi's various white-papers contradict themselves in this respect) the chip sports roughly 40 million transistors more than the GeForce4 Ti. It also features four vertex shaders and eight pixel pipelines - twice as many as NVIDIA's flagship. At least the second part of that statement is only half true, however, since the R300's pixel pipelines can only process one texture per clock cycle, compared to the GeForce4's two.