Beyond3D has posted a review on the Sapphire ATLANTIS RADEON 9500 video card.
In comparison to the 9000 PRO though, it seems that 9500 can keep a nice little performance gain over all resolutions. This is probably in part to the extra geometry throughput of the 9500, but it could also be due to the fact that 9500's 'HYPER-Z III' bandwidth saving scheme can do early rejection of occluded pixels that weren't already rejected by the hierarchical Z-buffer.Read more