ATI's Radeon 9500 Pro - Now Shipping & Faster

[Ian]

Anandtech take an updated look at the ATI 9500 graphics card, recently reviewed with sub Ti42000 performance. The new drivers and revisions have boosed the performance of this card to faster than the Ti4600 in some cases!!!

The card was announced back in October and it will be in retail by the middle of December, but today ATI is announcing that they are beginning shipments of the 9500 Pro. In order to tide the market over until the 9500 Pro hits the streets, ATI has the Radeon 9500 to fill the gap but as we hypothesized in our first article - the 9500 won't be too competitive of a part.

The reason we're revisiting the Radeon 9500 Pro today isn't to commemorate its shipping status, but rather to look at the influences a redesigned board and shipping drivers will have on the final product. ATI told us at Comdex that the performance of the shipping Radeon 9500 Pro would be noticeably better than what we reviewed last month. How different is the shipping product? Let's find out...

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[Eric Portelance]

I might just pick up a 9500 Pro when it's released. I want good 2D quality (and ATi is better than nVidia), but still pretty good 3D for the rare occasion I play a game. It'll have to depend on the price.