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October 2003 3Digest:
ATI RADEON 9000 128MB DDR (250/400 MHz)





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




Features:

  • ATI RADEON 9000 GPU, clock speed reduced to 250 MHz;
  • 128MB DDR SGRAM in 8 Samsung 3.6ns chips, 200 (400) MHz clock speed, 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 $60-75 range; supports DirectX 8.1.

Theoretical and analytical graphics card reviews containing functional analysis of ATI graphics cards

On October 10, 2003 the latest drivers from ATI are 6.387 and 6.396 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.



Andrew Vorobyev (anvakams@ixbt.com)
Kirill Budankov (budankov@ixbt.com)

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