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AMD RADEON 9500

The AMD RADEON 9500 is a graphics card released on October 24, 2002. It has 128 MB of DDR memory and a boost clock of 275 MHz. It scores 36 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 9 and OpenGL 2.

R300 (Khan)

4/10 key specs recorded · 20 facts

Depth: 26 recorded fields

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 4 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

n/a

Memory

128 MB

DDR

Boost clock

n/a

275 MHz base

Board power

n/a

Performance

The AMD RADEON 9500 scores 36 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 9.4% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #2,604), measured across 3 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 173.

PassMark G3D Mark

Rank #2,604
Faster than 9.4% of 2,658 GPUs
3 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

As stated by PassMark

Category Desktop

Bus interface AGP 8x

Max memory 128 MB

Core clock 275 MHz

Memory clock 540 MHz

DirectX 9

OpenGL 2

First benchmarked 2011-06-29

Samples 3

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the AMD RADEON 9500 states the AGP 8x interface, up to 128 MB of memory, a core clock of 275 MHz, DirectX 9 and OpenGL 2, first benchmarked on 2011-06-29. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Not to be confused with

This page covers the AMD RADEON 9500 specifically. It is a different product from AMD RADEON 9500 PRO / 9700, AMD Radeon 9500 Pro, which have their own specifications. Check the exact model name before comparing figures.

Graphics processor

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Codename R300 (Khan)

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The AMD RADEON 9500 uses the R300 (Khan) graphics processor.

Shader configuration

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Texture units (TMUs) 4

Render output units (ROPs) 4

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The AMD RADEON 9500 4 texture mapping units and 4 render output units.

The AMD RADEON 9500 does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics.

Clock speeds

Base clock 275 MHz

Boost clock Not recorded

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The AMD RADEON 9500 runs at a base clock of 275 MHz.

Memory

Size 128 MB

Type DDR

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The AMD RADEON 9500 is equipped with 128 MB of DDR memory.

Board and power

The AMD RADEON 9500 it connects over AGP 8x.

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Bus interface AGP 8x

Market

Launched October 24, 2002

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Segment Desktop

Series Radeon

The AMD RADEON 9500 was released on October 24, 2002.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 36

PassMark G2D 173

Rank #2,604

Samples 3

Graphics and compute APIs

The AMD RADEON 9500 supports DirectX 9 and OpenGL 2.

DirectX 9 (stated by PassMark)

OpenGL 2 (stated by PassMark)

CUDA is an NVIDIA technology and does not apply to the AMD RADEON 9500. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the AMD RADEON 9500. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the AMD RADEON 9500.