Radeon 8500 LE
RADEON 8500 with lower frequencies. Instead of 275 MHz for the chip and 275 MHz for the memory, the Radeon 8500 LE has 250 and 250 MHz, respectively. As a rule, all non-ATI or non-ATI boxed Radeon 8500s belonged to the LE series.
At first, many users thought that by buying a Radeon 8500 LE, they could easily raise the frequencies and thereby turn it into a Radeon 8500, as was done with the Radeon LE. Especially since the 8500 LE didn't have anything disabled or blocked. But that was not the case: the first experiments showed that the video cards did not want to work stably when overclocked to 275/275. A detailed study showed that a hardware method was used to artificially reduce the performance - the memory supply voltage was lowered. In general, it was not possible to turn a Radeon 8500 LE into an 8500 without soldering.
| Name | Radeon 8500 LE / 9100 |
| Core | R200 |
| Process technology (µm) | 0.15 |
| Transistors (million) | 60 |
| Core frequency | 250 |
| Memory frequency (DDR) | 200-250 (400-500) |
| Bus and memory type | DDR-128bit |
| Bandwidth (Gb/s) | 6.4 - 8.0 |
| Pixel pipelines | 4 |
| TMU per conveyor | 2 |
| textures per clock | 8 |
| textures per pass | 3 |
| Vertex conveyors | 2 |
| Pixel Shaders | 1.4 |
| Vertex Shaders | 1.1 |
| Fill Rate (Mpix/s) | 1000 |
| Fill Rate (Mtex/s) | 2000 |
| DirectX | 8.1 |
| Anti-Aliasing (Max) | SS - 6x (800*600) |
| Anisotropic Filtering (Max) | 16x |
| Memory | 64 / 128 MB |
| Interface | AGP4x |
| RAMDAC | 400 / 240 MHz |
Later, a variation of this card appeared under the brand name Radeon 9100, combining good performance and low price, they were a good choice for gamers.