ATI RADEON 8500 64MB DDR AGP

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Revolutionize your 3D gaming experience! With 64MB DDR memory and intelligent architecture, RADEON™ 8500 gives you the new level of character realism and texture versatility, raising the bar in visual quality and performance.

• Powered by the revolutionary RADEON™ 8500 – world’s fastest and most advanced graphics processing unit (GPU)
• Features ATI's TRUFORM™, SMARTSHADER™, SMOOTHVISION™, and HYPER™ Z II technologies
• The only GPU to support DirectX® 8.1
• Supports OpenGL® 1.3 features
• 64MB of powerful double data rate (DDR) memory
• Latest 3D games support the advanced features of RADEON™ 8500
• Dual monitor and Video output support
• Industry-leading DVD video playback
• Digital Flat Panel (DVI) support
• Supports 3D resolutions (32-bit color) up to 2048x1536
• AGP 2.0 Compliant BUS - AGP 2X (3.3V), AGP 4X (1.5V), or AGP2X/4X based systems

• ATI’s new SMARTSHADER™ technology takes advantage of the DirectX® 8.1 features to enable more complex and realistic texture and lighting effects
• The only graphics board to support DirectX® 8.1
• Best performance for today’s and tomorrow’s demanding applications
• Full support and compliance with OpenGL® 1.3 applications
• CHARISMA ENGINE™ II supports full Transformation, Clipping and Lighting (T&L) at 75 million triangles/second peak processing capability
• PIXEL TAPESTRY™ II, the RADEON™ 8500 3D rendering engine, powers an incredible 2.4 Gigatexels per second for the highest fill rates in 32-bit at high resolutions

• Powered by the revolutionary RADEON™ 8500 GPU and 64MB of DDR memory for the fastest and most advanced 3D graphics on the market
• Features ATI’s innovative TRUFORM™ technology that makes the outlines of 3D characters and objects look smoother and more natural than ever before
• High resolution 32-bit 3D gaming up to 2048x1536
• ATI’s HYPER Z™ II technology conserves memory bandwidth for improved performance in demanding applications and boosts effective bandwidth by over 25%
• SMOOTHVISION™ anti-aliasing – the most advanced anti-aliasing to eliminate distracting visual artifacts for smoother looking images and without serious performance compromise
  

• Leading-edge HydraVision™ technology supports traditional CRT monitors, flat panel displays and TVs
• Multi-task with MultiDesk – play multi-monitor games, or work in different applications on each monitor without having to switch back-and-forth
• Assign ‘Hot Key’ shortcuts for the most used functions
• Vary settings from one application to the next, or choose global settings that determine the behavior of windows and dialog boxes for all applications in your multi-monitor environment
• Learn more about HYDRAVISION™

• ATI’s VIDEO IMMERSION™ II technology enables integration of industry-leading digital video features, including advanced de-interlacing algorithms for unprecedented video quality and integrated digital TV decode capability
• Includes programmable gamma for the overlay and Frame Rate Conversion (Temporal Filtering)
• Hardware DVD saves the expense of buying a separate MPEG-2/DVD decoder card and motion compensation allows for DVD decoding with minimum CPU usage
• HDTV ready

• Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron™, AMD® K6/Athlon® or compatible with AGP 2.0 Compliant BUS - AGP 2X (3.3V), AGP 4X (1.5V), or AGP2X/4X based systems
• 64MB of system memory
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
• DVD playback requires DVD drive

Graphics controller

• RADEON™ 8500 graphics processing unit (GPU)

Memory configuration

• 64MB of double data rate memory

Operating systems support

• Windows® 98/98SE
• Windows® Me
• Windows® 2000
• Windows® XP

Monitor support

• CRT Monitor: 15-pin VGA connector
• TV and VCR: s-video or composite connector
• DVI-I (flat panel display) connector

Display support

• Register compatible with VGA
• BIOS compatible with VESA for super VGA
• DDC1/2b/2b+ monitor support
• VESA Display Power Management Support
  
• Separate horizontal and vertical synchronization at TTL levels

• TRUFORM™
• SMARTSHADER™
• DirectX® 8.1 support
• OpenGL® 1.3
• SMOOTHVISION™ anti-aliasing
• HYPER Z™ II
• CHARISMA ENGINE™ II
• PIXEL TAPESTRY™ II
• VIDEO IMMERSION™ II
• High Performance Memory Support
• Dual Display Support
• Integrated Transformation, Clipping and Lighting
• Twin Cache Architecture
• SuperScalar Rendering
• Single-Pass Multi-texturing
• True Color Rendering
• Triangle Setup Engine
• Texture Cache
• Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering
• Line & Edge Anti-aliasing
• Full-Screen Anti-aliasing
• Texture Compositing
• Texture Decompression
• Specular Highlights
• Perspectively Correct Texture Mapping
• Mip-Mapping
• Z-buffering and Double-buffering
• Emboss, Dot Product 3 and Environment bump mapping
• Spherical, Dual-Paraboloid and Cubic environment mapping
• Fog effects, texture lighting, video textures, reflections, shadows, spotlights, LOD biasing and texture morphing

Warranty

• 3-year limited warranty

• RADEON™ 8500 uses RAGE THEATER™ companion chip for high quality video output
• Features 165MHz integrated TMDS transmitter to support DVI up to UXGA (1600x1200) resolution
• Get all of the incredible 3D and DVD of RADEON™ 8500 with the benefit of flat panels – crisper images, significantly reduced eyestrain and space savings
• Use video-out to connect your PC to TV or VCR

2D display modes: resolutions, colors and maximum refresh rates (Hz) in 256, 65K or 16.7M colors

Maximum 3D resoulutions