ATI Radeon 9500 videocard review

Radeon 9500 videocard released by ATI; release date: 1 March 2003. The videocard is designed for desktop-computers and based on Rage 8 microarchitecture codenamed R300.

Core clock speed - 275 MHz. Texture fill rate - 1.1 GTexel / s. Manufacturing process technology - 150 nm. Transistors count - 110 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 12 Watt.

Memory type: DDR. Maximum RAM amount - 64 MB. Memory bus width - 256 Bit. Memory clock speed - 540 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 17.28 GB / s.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

38287

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1401

173

Name	Value
PassMark - G3D Mark	36
PassMark - G2D Mark	173

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8
Code name	R300
Launch date	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1028
Type	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt
Transistor count	110 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	9.0
OpenGL	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	17.28 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	540 MHz
Memory type	DDR