December 2002 3Digest -
ATI RADEON 9000 128MB DDR (250/400 MHz)
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This chip is presented by Hercules 3D Prophet 9000 Pro 128MB, AGP card.
Features:
- ATI RADEON 9000 chip, clock rate lowered to 250 MHz;
- 128MB DDR SGRAM in 8 Samsung 3.6 ns chips, clock rate lowered to 200 (400) MHz, 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 December the product belongs to the $85-105 range; supports DirectX 8.1; closest rivals: GeForce3 Ti 200, GeForce4 MX440.
Theoretical and analytical videocard reviews, containing functional analysis of NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti GPU: ATI RADEON 9000
On the 10th of December 2002 the latest drivers version from ATI is 6.218 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.
Considering that RADEON 9000 supports the same DX81 functions, as RADEON 8500, we won't describe shader performance again, as you can read about it in the RADEON 8500 section.
Below are screenshots from a number of games taken on RADEON 9000, and the reference screenshots taken on NVIDIA GeForce3.
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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
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