This chip is presented by Hercules 3D Prophet 9000 Pro 128MB, AGP card.

Features:

• ATI RADEON 9000 chip, clock rate lowered to 250 MHz;
• 128MB DDR SGRAM in 8 Samsung 3.6 ns chips, clock rate lowered to 200 (400) MHz, 128-bit bus;
• Peak fill rate in the multitexturing mode is 1000 megapixels/sec and 1000 megatexels/sec.

Wasn't overclocked.

By the end of the month the product belongs to the $81-101 range; supports DirectX 8.1; closest rivals: GeForce3 Ti 200, GeForce4 MX440.

Theoretical and analytical videocard reviews, containing functional analysis of NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti GPU: ATI RADEON 9000

• Basic review of ATI RADEON 9000/Pro: Part 1 - What is RV250, and the review of Gigabyte RADEON 9000 Pro 64MB
• Basic review of ATI RADEON 9000/Pro: Part 2 - continuing to get to know RV250, and the review of Hercules 3D Prophet 9000 Pro 128MB
• Review of RADEON 9000Pro cards from PowerColor, SuperGrace, and TYAN

On the 10th of February 2003 the latest drivers version from ATI is 6.292 for Windows XP.

I shall note there's Radeon2.ru, web-site that tracks all software novelties from ATI and offers improved drivers versions with preset registry settings for increasing RADEON cards perfomance.

Cards' performance is in the summary diagrams.

Considering that RADEON 9000 supports the same DX81 functions, as RADEON 8500, we won't describe shader performance again, as you can read about it in the RADEON 8500 section.

Below are screenshots obtained on RADEON 9000 along with reference images obtained on ATI RADEON 9500.

Games / Cards	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
ATI RADEON 9000			NA
ATI RADEON 9500

Games list:

• 1. Return to Castle Wolfenstein
• 2. Unreal2 (alpha version)
• 3. Comanche4
• 4. Jedi Knight II Outcast
• 5. Morrowind
• 6. Colin McRAE Rally2
• 7. Red Faction
• 8. Rally Trophy
• 9. Need For Speed
• 10. Venom
• 11. Unreal Tournament 2003 DEMO
• 12. DOOM 3 v0.02