Introducing ATi's New Middle Class: The Radeon 9600 PRO

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Radeon 9600 PRO Card Versions

Radeon 9600 PRO 128 MB DDR (400/600); available: April 2003; price: $169-$199;
Radeon 9600 64/128 MB DDR (325/400); available: April 2003; price: $149-$169.

And the features of the Radeon 9600 VPU (RV350) in summary:

DirectX 9;
~75 million transistors;
Four pixel pipelines (4x1 design);
Two vertex shader units;
0.13 micron manufacturing process;
128 bit DDR Memory (DDR-II ready);
Up to 128 MB Memory;
SmartShader 2.0;
SmoothVision 2.1 (optimized FSAA, AA and memory controller; 6:1 color compression);
HyperZ III+ (8:1 Z-compression).

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Header Cell - Column 0	ATI Radeon 9500	ATI Radeon 9500 PRO	ATI Radeon 9600 PRO	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	0.15 Micron	0.13 Micron	0.15 Micron	0.13 Micron
Transistors	~107 Mio	~107 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	8.8 GB/s	9.6 GB/s	8.0 GB/s	11.2 GB/s
Pixel Fillrate	1.1 Gigapixel/s	2.2 Gigapixel/s	1.6 Gigapixel/s	1.1 Gigapixel/s	1.4 Gigapixel/s
Anti Aliased Fillrate	6.6 Billion AA Samples/s	13.2 Billion AA Samples/s	9.6 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
Memory	64/128 MB	128 MB	128 MB	64/128 MB	128 MB
GPU Clock	275 MHz	275 MHz	400 MHz	250 MHz	350 MHz
Memory Clock	270 MHz (540 DDR)	275 MHz (550 DDR)	300 MHz (600 DDR)	257 MHz (514 DDR)	350 MHz (700 DDR)
Memory	-unknown	BGA 3.6 ns	-unknown	BGA 3.1 ns	-unknown
Vertex Shader	4	4	2	2	1 (Array)
Pixel Pipelines	4	8	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	MultiSampling	MultiSampling	MultiSampling	MultiSampling	MultiSampling
Memory Optmizations	Hyper Z III	Hyper Z III	Hyper Z III+	LMA II	IntelliSample
Optmizations	SmartShader 2.0SmoothVision 2.0	SmartShader 2.0SmoothVision 2.0	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 26 - Cell 4	TV Encoder On-Chip;Adaptive Filtering, DirectX 9+
Estimated Price	$179 (old price)	$199 (old price)	$169-$199	$169-$199	$169-$199