ATI Radeon 8000 series

The logo of the Radeon 8500.

The Radeon 8000-series is a series of desktop - graphics chip company ATI Technologies and successor to the ATI Radeon 7000 series . It was released between 2001 and 2002, making it the second generation of graphics processors to be known as ATI Radeon . It was replaced by the ATI Radeon 9000 series .

Graphics processors

Different graphics processors are used within the Radeon 8000 series, which differ in terms of production technology and 3D capabilities.

Overview graphics chips of the ATI Radeon 8000 series

Graphics chip	production			Render pipelines		DirectX / OpenGL version	cutting stelle	Others
	process	transis- interfere	The surface	Pipes × TMU × VPU	Pixel shader
R200	150 nm	approx. 60 million		4 × 2 × 2		8.1 / 1.4	AGP 4 ×
R250	150 nm							was never brought to market

Model data

Overview models of the ATI Radeon 8000 series

model	Launch	Graphics processor (GPU)			Graphics memory				Others
		Type	Clock in MHz	Fill rate in MT / s	Size in MB	Clock in MHz	Type	Bandwidth in GB / s
Radeon 8500 LE	2002	R200	250	2000	064 128	250	128 bit DDR	8.0
Radeon 8500	08/2001		275	2200	064 128	275		8.8
Radeon 8500 XT	never		300	2400	128	300		9.6	was never published

Notes :

• The specified clock rates are those recommended or specified by ATI. However, the final determination of the clock rates is in the hands of the respective graphics card manufacturer, which is why there are graphics card models that have different clock rates. A record of all actual models would go far beyond the article.