Radeon 7500 Mem Bandwidth?

[WarGhSt]

Just how much memory bandwidth does the Radeon 7500 have? I've been reading and have read 7.4 and 8.8GB/sec memory bandwidth. If this is true, would it be much better than the GeForce 4 MX420 that I've been looking at. Keep in mind I have to use a PCI based card because of my $h!tty mobo.

Thanks!

[Fahim]

Hi,

ATI RADEON 7500 has a fill rate of 1.74GTexels/Sec when all three texture units in both dual pipelines are used. It has a raw memory bandwidth of 7.36GB/Sec & with HyperZ, it has an effective memory bandwidth of 7.36GB+20%. Do your calculation. Bye.

[Mloot]

If you are looking to buy a PCI card and if you have a somewhat modern system, wait a week or two for Visiontek's 9100 PCI.

The 7500 PCI should perform better than the 420, but if you want something in that price range, get an MX440 PCI instead. You'll be much happier.