RV250 - July 2002

The battle is raging on and blood is being shed by the bucketfull. The apparition of the 9000 series is made in time to spite nVidia but fails to put ATI at the top. Yet, the performance of the beast is nothing to sneer at :

Tech Sheet

RAMDAC 2x400 Mhz Transistor count (millions) 63 Technology 0.15 micron Frequency 250 Mhz Onboard RAM 64/128 MB DDR RAM bus frequency 222/257 Mhz DDR RAM bus width 128 bits Memory Bandwidth 8.2 GB/s Pixel Pipelines 4 Triangle count (millions) Pixel fill rate MPixels

Unfortunately, the RV250 works less well than its predecessor. nVidia is safe for the moment, but that will not last.

The Radeon 8500

The Radeon 9700