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June 2003 3Digest:
ATI RADEON 9500 128MB 256bit DDR (275/540 MHz)







This chip is presented by Sapphire Atlantis RADEON 9500 128MB 256bit, AGP card.




Features:

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

Overclocks to 400(!)/660 MHz.

The performance results are in the summary diagrams.

On June 10, 2003 the latest drivers version from ATI is 6.343 for Windows XP.

By the end of the month the product belongs to the $160-170 range; 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 series.








Considering the new anisotropy quality, I recommend you to read the anisotropic filtering section.

Below are screenshots obtained on RADEON 9500.

Games / Cards 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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

Games / Cards 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
ATI RADEON 9500





















































Games list:

Games / Cards 25 26 27 28 29 30
ATI RADEON 9500

































Games and tests list:



Andrew Vorobyev (Anvakams@ixbt.com)
Alexandr Kondakov (kondalex@ixbt.com)

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