Assumption Of NV30 Specifications - Radeon 9500 Specs & Benchmark

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Renowned german IT magazine Chip has compiled the latest info and assumptions regarding the eagerly awaited launch of NV30 at Comdex Fall, Las Vegas in November. They also have a first benchmark of ATI's Radeon 9500 series which is on par with Nvidia's GeForce 4 Ti 4600. Read more...

NV 30 assumed specs: Brand Name: GeForce 5 (?) On die transistor count: ~120 million (Radeon 9700 Pro: ~106 million) 0.13 micron processing GPU speed between 350 and 400Mhz Memory speed ~700Mhz (2x 350Mhz) 8 rendering pipelines with 2 texture processing units each DirectX 9 compatible 256bit memory bus Up to 256Mbyte memory configurations Expected performance: Q3A at 1280x1024 / 4x FSAA: 2.5 times faster than GeForce4 Ti 4600 3DMark 2001 SE: up to 3 times faster than Ti 4600 Fillrate with anisotropic filtering enabled increased by factor 3 Direct X 9 pixel shaders work up to 4 times faster ATI 9xxx GPU Overview FeaturesRadeon 9700 ProRadeon 9700Radeon 9500 ProRadeon 9500Core Speed325 MHz275 MHz275 MHz275 MHzMemory Speed620 MHz540 MHz540 MHz540 MHzDDR Memory128 MByte128 MByte128 MByte64/128 MByteMemory Bus256 Bit256 Bit128 Bit128 BitRAMDACDual 400 MHzDual 400 MHzDual 400 MHzDual 400 MHzAGP8x8x8x8xRendering Pipelines8884 For the benchmark results of ATI's Radeon 9500 Pro and 9500 click here. Graphs speak a universal language.