Facelift: The ATi Radeon 9600 XT

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Header Cell - Column 0	ATI Radeon 9500 PRO	ATI Radeon 9600 PRO	ATI Radeon 9600 XT	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	0.13 Micron	0.13 Micron	0.15 Micron	0.13 Micron
Transistors	~107 Mio	~75 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	9.6 GB/s	9.6 GB/s	8.0 GB/s	12.8 GB/s
Pixel Fillrate	2.2 Gigapixel/s	1.6 Gigapixel/s	2.0 Gigapixel/s	1.1 Gigapixel/s	1.6 Gigapixel/s
Anti Aliased Fillrate	13.2 Billion AA Samples/s	9.6 Billion AA Samples/s	12 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
Triangles/s	275M	200M	250M	113M	100M
Memory	128 MB	128/256/MB	128/256 MB	64/128 MB	128/256 MB
GPU Clock	275 MHz	400 MHz	500 MHz	250 MHz	400 MHz
Memory Clock	275 MHz (550 DDR)	300 MHz (600 DDR)	300 MHz (600 DDR)	257 MHz (514 DDR)	400 MHz (800 DDR)
Vertex Shader	4	2	2	2	1 (Array)
Pixel Pipelines	8	4	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	MultiSamplingMax 6x	MultiSamplingMax 6x	MultiSamplingMax 6x	MultiSamplingMax 4x	MultiSamplingMax 4xMixedModesMax 8x
Anisotropic Filtering	2/4/8/16x	2/4/8/16x	2/4/8/16x	2/4/8x	2/4/8x
Memory Optmizations	Hyper Z III	Hyper Z III+	Hyper Z III+	LMA II	IntelliSample
Optmizations	SmartShader 2.0SmoothVision 2.0	SmartShader 2.0SmoothVision 2.1	SmartShader 2.0SmoothVision 2.1	nFiniteFX IIAccuview	CineFXIntelliSample
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; FullStreamAdaptive Filtering	TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStreamAdaptive Filtering	TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStreamAdaptive Filtering	Row 27 - Cell 4	TV Encoder On-Chip;Adaptive Filtering, DirectX 9+
Street-Price (+tax)	~ $160	~ $150	$199(official ATI price)	~ $90	~$150-180Beware of Flipchip version (400 MHz Core)!