ATI Technologies and its partners started to sell RADEON 9500 64MB powered graphics cards almost all around the world. There are a lot of notices at Pricewatch search-engine in regards the novelties and this Japanese web-site reports that PowerColor started to supply the local distributors with their EvilCommando RADEON 9500 64MB.

The RADEON 9500 features 4 rendering pipelines with 1 TMU per each, supports the DirectX 9.0 features and 4 geometry engines. In addition, the new VPU offers dual 400MHz RAMDACs and all the technologies that are implemented in the RADEON 9700 chip, including HyperZ-III, TrueForm 2.0, SmartShader 2.0, SmoothVision 2.0, AGP 8x and so on. All the RADEON 9500 based graphics cards that are currently for sale utilise 128-bit memory bus and are clocked at 275/540MHz for core and 64MB of DDR SDRAM memory.

Unfortunately, the RADEON 9500 64MB does not seem to be as cheap as it was meant to be. In Japan the unit costs about $205, while at Pricewatch from $165 to $189. In fact, some stores also offer to pre-order RADEON 9500 128MB graphics cards for $190 to $210.

The good news is that ATI RADEON 9500 based products started to appear. The bad one is that they are too expensive at the moment compared to rival’s GeForce4 Ti4200 powered devices. Nevertheless, since graphics cards equipped with RADEON VPUs usually loose their price really soon after the appearance, we may expect them to become more interesting products to buy in a number of weeks.