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Gigabyte GV-R9500pro Review (1)
Overclocker 13 Jan 2003

Background

A few months ago, we reviewed the Gigabyte MayaII Radeon 9700Pro and it has overtaken the GF4 Ti4600 as the top performer. Lately, Gigabyte joins in ATi and other manufacturers and released a scaled down version named Radeon 9500Pro. As most of you have probably spent quite an amount buying the latest out there, the Radeon 9500pro comes as a mid-top range card as it offers performance level similar to the nVIDIA GF4 Ti4600.

The Radeon 9500Pro has an impressive performance on par with Ti4600, it also supports the latest MS DirectX 9. For those who of you who are confused with the different cores, here is a chart for your comparison.

Model Name	GV-R9700 PRO	GV-R9700	GV-R9500 PRO II	GV-R9500
VGA Chip	Radeon 9700 PRO	Radeon 9700	Radeon 9500 PRO	Radeon 9500
Core Clock	325MHz	275MHz	275MHz	275MHz
Memory Clock	620MHz	540MHz	540MHz	540MHz
Memory Size	128MB	128MB	128MB	64MB
Pipeline	8	8	8	4
Memory Bus	256bit	256bit	128bit	128bit
RAMDAC	400MHz	400MHz	400MHz	400MHz
AGP Type	AGP 8/4X	AGP 8/4X	AGP 8/4X	AGP 8/4X
Memory Type	DDR 4x32-2.8	*DDR 4x32-3.6	*DDR 4x32-3.6	*DDR 4x16-3.6
D-SUB	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
TV-OUT	S/RCA	S/RCA	S/RCA	S/RCA
DVI Port	DVI-I	DVI-I	DVI-I	DVI-I
TwinView	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Chip Fan	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
O/C Tools	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
DirectX	9.0	9.0	9.0	9.0
Applications	Power DVD XP	Power DVD XP	Power DVD XP	Power DVD XP
Games CD	Serious Sam	Serious Sam	Serious Sam	Serious Sam
	Rune	Rune	Rune	Rune
	Heavy Metal FAKK2	Heavy Metal FAKK2	Heavy Metal FAKK2	4x4 / Oni
	Motocross Mania	Motocross Mania	Motocross Mania
	4x4 / Oni	4x4 / Oni	4x4 / Oni

We ran the system under AGP 8x mode on EPOX 8RDA+ nForce2 mainboard using AMD AXP2700+ 2 x 256M DDR400 module. We also explored the AntiAliasing and Anisotropic filtering modes comparing it to Chaintech GF4 Ti4600. We also explored the overclockability of this card.

Benchmarks used include 3dMark2001SE B330, Q3 demo001, Comanche 4 and CodeCreatures Benchmark Pro.