ATI Radeon 9700 PRO videocard review

Radeon 9700 PRO videocard released by ATI; release date: 1 July 2002. The videocard is designed for desktop-computers and based on Rage 8 microarchitecture codenamed R300.

Core clock speed - 325 MHz. Texture fill rate - 2.6 GTexel / s. Manufacturing process technology - 150 nm. Transistors count - 110 million.

Memory type: DDR. Maximum RAM amount - 128 MB. Memory bus width - 256 Bit. Memory clock speed - 620 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 19.84 GB / s.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

38534

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1294

149

Name	Value
PassMark - G3D Mark	54
PassMark - G2D Mark	149

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8
Code name	R300
Launch date	1 July 2002
Place in performance rating	1103
Type	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm
Texture fill rate	2.6 GTexel / s
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	Floppy
API support
DirectX	9.0
OpenGL	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	19.84 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	620 MHz
Memory type	DDR