Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Correct, its not the driver, but all of those cards are closely related.
The 8500 is an R200. The 9000 is an RV250.
The 9000 is actually a downgraded design when compared to the 8500.
According to Wikipedia "Among hardware removed is one of the two texture units, the "TruForm" function, Hierarchical-Z, the DirectX 7 TCL unit and one of the two vertex shaders."
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