This chip is presented by Hercules 3D Prophet 9600 256MB, AGP card.

Features:

• ATI RADEON 9600 GPU, 325MHz clock rate;
• 256MB DDR SGRAM; 200 (400) MHz clock rate; 128-bit bus;
• Peak fill rate in the multitexturing mode is 1300 megapixels/sec and 1300 megatexels/sec.

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By the end of the month the product costs $106-110 on average, supports DirectX 9.0. There's nothing to add to this . 256MB is a purely marketing trick.

AGP x8/x4, 256MB DDR SDRAM in 8 Hynix chips. 4ns indicate 250 (500) MHz, but the memory operates at 200 (400) MHz usual for RADEON 9600. 128-bit bus.

On November 10, 2004 the latest drivers from ATI were 6.490 (CATALYST 4.11 WHQL, Release), 6.497 (CATALYST beta) for Windows XP.