Gigabyte Technology today unveiled the RADEON 9500 based graphics card called MAYA II GV-R9500. The novelty is targeted on the market of mainstream graphics adapters for gamers and computer enthusiasts.

RADEON 9500 graphics processor is the derivative from the RADEON 9700 VPU. It supports AGP 8x, DirectX 9.0, provides four geometry engines, dual 400MHz RAMDACs, HyperZ-III, TrueForm 2.0 and so on. In order to lower the costs of their mainstream solutions, ATI decided to use 128-bit memory bus for the RADEON 9500 based graphics cards. RADEON 9500 features four rendering pipelines with one TMU per each.

MAYA II GV-R9500 graphics card is clocked at 275/550MHz for core/memory, equipped with 64MB of 3.6ns DDR SDRAM (4Mx16) memory, D-Sub, DVI-I and TV-Out connectors. Among the software bundle, besides the V-Tuner and other proprietary software from Gigabyte, I should mention Power DVD XP player and up to four various games, according to the company.

The price and availability timeframe are not declared.

As stated by our sources, the RADEON 9500 PRO (see this news-story for the details and specifications) launch is postponed a bit. They said that the novelty will be announced in less than two weeks, or, maybe, even sooner.