Hardware Extreme has compared the Raedon 8500LE card with the Raedon8500, the GeForce3 Ti500, and the GeForce4 MX440. I would've like to have seen it compared to a card in the GeForce 4 Ti series, but you can't have it all Read the entire review.
Based on benchmark scores, the ATi Radeon 8500 LE offers performance incredibly close to, if not better than, that of a regular ATi Radeon 8500. Moreover, this low-end Radeon 8500 can outperform a high-end GeForce3 Ti500 too. It also puts up an impressive fight in NVIDIA optimized benchmarks.