Radeon R300 was the first fully Direct3D 9-capable consumer graphics chip.
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10 Facts About Radeon R300
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Radeon R300 was the first board to truly take advantage of a 256-bit memory bus.
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Performance and quality increases offered by the Radeon R300 GPU are considered to be one of the greatest in the history of 3D graphics, alongside the achievements GeForce 256 and Voodoo Graphics.
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Radeon R300 would become one of the GPUs with the longest useful lifetime in history, allowing playable performance in new games at least 3 years after its launch.
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Since all of the Radeon R300 chips were based on the same physical die, ATI's margins on 9500 products were low.
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Radeon R300 9500 was one of the shortest-lived product of ATI, later replaced by the Radeon R300 9600 series.
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The Mobility Radeon R300 9600 was originally planned to use a RAM technology called GDDR2-M.
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Radeon R300 developing that memory went bankrupt and the RAM never arrived, so ATI was forced to use regular DDR SDRAM.
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Worthy of note regarding the Radeon R300-based generation is that the entire lineup utilized single-slot cooling solutions.
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Later the Radeon R300 X550 was launched, using the same chip as Radeon R300 X300 graphics card .
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