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November 2002 3Digest -
ATI RADEON 7500 (230/333 MHz)







This chip is presented by ATI RADEON 7500 64MB (230/333 MHz), AGP videocard.




Features:

  • ATI RADEON 7500 chip, 230MHz clock rate;
  • 64MB DDR SDRAM memory in eight Hynix 5.5ns microchips, 166 (333) MHz clock rate, 128-bit bus;
  • Peak fill rate in the multitexturing mode is 520 megapixels/sec and 1560 megatexels/sec with three texture blocks on each pipeline and 1040 megatexels/sec with two texture blocks on each pipeline.

Wasn't overclocked.

In the beginning of December the product belongs to the $55-80 range; supports DirectX 7.0; closest rival: GeForce4 MX440.

On the 10th of November 2002 the latest drivers from ATI are 6.200 for Windows XP, 9.069 for Windows ME. The performance results are in the summary diagrams.

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.

And now I want to attract your attention to another important 3D feature - filtering. As many of you know, all chipsets support bilinear filtering that is an important instrument in MIP-mapping, some chipsets support trilinear filtering (true, not the approximation) and only few support anisotropic filtering.

Due to the fact that Radeon does support anisotropic filtering, I recommend you to pay attention to the article concerning this feature.

Below are some screenshots taken on RADEON and reference ones taken on NVIDIA GeForce3.

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ATI RADEON 7500




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Game list:

  • 1. Return to Castle Wolfenstein
  • 2. Unreal2 (alpha version)
  • 3. Comanche4
  • 4. Jedi Knight II Outcast
  • 5. Morrowind
  • 6. Colin McRAE Rally2 (Windows XP)
  • 7. Red Faction
  • 8. Rally Trophy
  • 9. Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
  • 10. Venom
  • 11. Unreal Tournament 2003 DEMO
  • 12. DOOM 3 v0.02
  • 13. Blade of Darkness (Windows XP)
  • 14. Neverwinter Nights
  • 15. 3DMark2001: Game1
  • 16. 3DMark2001: Game2
  • 17. 3DMark2001: Game3
  • 18. 3DMark2001: Game4
  • 19. 3DMark2001: Dot3
  • 20. 3DMark2001: EMBM
  • 21. 3DMark2001: Vertex Shaders
  • 22. 3DMark2001: Pixel Shaders
  • 23. Warcraft III
  • 24. Soldier of Fortune II
  • 25. Command and Conquer: Renegade
  • 26. No One Lives Forever Demo
  • 27. AquaNox
  • 28. Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
  • 29. IL2: Shturmovik
  • 30. MoHAA



Andrey Vorobiev (Anvakams@ixbt.com)
Alexander Kondakov (kondalex@ixbt.com)

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