Radeon 9500 PRO: specs and benchmarks
Summary
ATI started Radeon 9500 PRO sales 1 October 2002. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Rage 8 architecture and made with 150 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 128 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.54 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 8.64 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 8x interface.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon 9500 PRO: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
Architecture | Rage 8 (2002−2006) | |
GPU code name | R300 | |
Market segment | Desktop | |
Release date | 1 October 2002 (21 year ago) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon 9500 PRO's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon 9500 PRO's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Core clock speed | 275 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
Number of transistors | 110 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
Manufacturing process technology | 150 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
Texture fill rate | 2.200 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon 9500 PRO and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
Interface | AGP 8x | |
Width | 1-slot | |
Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon 9500 PRO: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
Memory type | DDR | |
Maximum RAM amount | 128 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Memory clock speed | 540 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
Memory bandwidth | 8.64 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon 9500 PRO. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon 9500 PRO, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX | 9.0 (9_0) | |
OpenGL | 2.0 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
OpenCL | N/A | |
Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon 9500 PRO. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
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