This chip is presented by Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9500 128MB, AGP.

Features:

• ATI RADEON 9500 chip, 275MHz clock;
• 128MB DDR SGRAM in 8 Hynix 3.6ns BGA chips, 270 (540) MHz clock, 256-bit bus;
• Peak fill rate in the multitexturing mode is 1100 megapixels/sec and 1100 megatexels/sec.

Overclocks to 400(!)/660MHz (GPU/memory).

The performance results are in the summary diagrams.

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

By the end of the month the product belongs to the $157-177, closest rival: GeForce4 Ti 4200.

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.

All the latest drivers belong to the CATALYST serie.

Taking into account the new anisotropy quality, I recommend you to read the anisotropic filtering section.

Below are screenshots obtained on RADEON 9500.

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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