The long awaited RV250 core is finally here. At first, rumors would have suspected that the Radeon 9000 Pro (rv250 core) would be the successor of the Radeon 8500 (R200 core). Instead the Radeon 9000 Pro seems to be ATi's budget card for their next generation video cards. All of ATi's internal benchmarkings has the Radeon 9000 Pro go against Nvidia's GeForce4 MX460. All specs of the Radeon 9000 Pro and the Radeon 8500 including clock speeds, memory speeds, bandwidth, etc. are the same except the Texture Units per Pipeline where the Radeon 9000 Pro has 1 whereas the Radeon 8500 has 2. Can it really be that similar you ask? Have a lookg for yourself...