Видеокарта ATI Radeon 8500 LE

Обзор

Питаниеed by the RADEON™ 8500LE GPU and 64MB of DDR Память, RADEON™ 8500LE delivers remarkable 3D gaming and graphics Производительность.

• Designed and built by ATI Technologies Inc.
• Awesome 3D gaming and graphics Производительность
• Питаниеed by 64MB DDR Память to accelerate the latest 3D games
• TRUFORM™ technology for life-like 3D characters
• SMARTSHADER™ enables more complex lighting effects
• HYPER Z™ II for higher graphics Пропускная способность
• TV out support
• Featuring CATALYST™ – ATI’s industry-leading software suite with frequently scheduled free updates providing additional features and Производительность over the product’s lifetime

Features

Питаниеful graphics Производительность

• Питаниеed by the RADEON™ 8500LE GPU and 64MB DDR Память for fast and advanced 3D graphics
• Features TRUFORM™ technology to make characters more life-like
• High-resolution 32-bit 3D gaming up to 2048×1536
• HYPER Z™ II technology conserves Пропускная способность for improved Производительность in demanding applications
• SMOOTHVISION™, ATI’s advanced anti-aliasing feature to date, eliminates distracting visual artifacts for smoother-looking images

Advanced visual effects

• SMARTSHADER™ technology takes advantage of the DirectX® 8.1 features to enable more complex and realistic lighting effects
• Support for OpenGL® 1.3 applications
• CHARISMA ENGINE™ II supports full Transformation, Clipping and Lighting (T&L) at 62.5 million triangles/second peak processing capability
• PIXEL TAPESTRY™ II, the rendering engine, Питаниеs an incredible 2.4 gigatexels/second for high fill rates in 32-bit at high resolutions

TV Out support and DVD playback

• ATI’s VIDEO IMMERSION™ II technology enables integration of industry-leading digital video features, including advanced de-interlacing algorithms for unprecedented video quality
• Use video-out to connect your PC to TV or VCR for recording

Industry-leading video playback

• 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

Products designed and built by ATI offer:

• ATI warranty coverage
• Reliable customer service
• Driver updates from ATI.com
• Exclusive ATI software for optimized Производительность

Radeon 8500 серия Specifications

System requirements

• Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron™, AMD® K6/Athlon® or compatible with AGP 2X or AGP 2X/4X universal slot
• 64MB of system Память
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
• DVD playback requires DVD drive

Graphics controller

• RADEON™ 8500LE graphics processing unit (GPU)

Конфигурация памяти

• 64MB of double data rate Память

Operating systems support

• Windows® 98/98SE*
• Windows® ME
• Windows® 2000
• Windows® XP

* Support through Windows® ME drivers.

Monitor support

• CRT Monitor: 15-pin VGA connector
• TV and VCR: s-video or composite connector

Display support

• Register compatible with VGA
• BIOS compatible with VESA for super VGA
• VESA standard Plug and Play monitor support
• VESA Display Питание Management Support
• Separate horizontal and vertical synchronization at TTL levels

Features

• 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 Производительность Память Support
• Dual Display Support
• Integrated Transformation, Clipping and Lighting
• Twin Cache Архитектура
• 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

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

Maximum 3D resolutions

ATI Technologies Inc. (TSE:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT), a world leader in the supply of graphics, video and multimedia solutions, today introduced the RADEON™ 8500LE Графический процессор, the latest addition to RADEON™, the world’s most Питаниеful and innovative family of graphics chip and board technologies.

Основана на the award-winning RADEON 8500 chip Архитектура, the RADEON 8500LE affords customers all of the industry-leading features of the world’s fastest and most technologically advanced graphics chip at a cost that is extremely appealing to a broader group of customers and at a Производительность level (250 MHz (megahertz) core clock speed compared to the RADEON 8500’s 275 MHz core clock speed) that would satisfy even the most Питание-hungry game or application. While ATI is marketing the RADEON 8500 through retail outlets worldwide, it is not selling the RADEON 8500LE through retail under the ATI brand name. ATI will only distribute the RADEON 8500LE to OEMs, ODMs and AIBs, who will then market the technology under their own brand names, selling it to systems integrators, distributors and retailers.

“We recognize that our OEM (original equipment manufacturer), ODM (original design manufacturer) and AIB (add-in-board manufacturer) customers want components at a variety of price and Производительность levels when choosing options for their systems,” said Jewelle Schiedel-Webb, Director, Desktop Marketing, ATI Technologies Inc. “The RADEON 8500LE will allow our OEM, ODM and AIB customers to include the technology-leading features of the RADEON 8500 chip with their products but, by using a variety of Память speeds and types, the cost of the product can be tailored to suit a broader range of customers.”

Thirteen companies are announcing RADEON 8500LE designs, including CP Technology Co. Ltd.; DFI Inc.; Ennyah Technologies Corp.; Giga-Byte Technology Co. Ltd.; Jetway Information Co. Ltd; Joytech Computer Co. Ltd.; Питание Magic Multimedia Ltd.; Raising Rich Ltd.; Sapphire Developments Ltd.; Shuttle Inc.; Super Grace Electronics Ltd.; Wistron Corporation; Yuan Yuan High-Tech Development Co. Ltd. Some of these designs are already shipping.

The RADEON 8500LE includes all of the new technologies found in the RADEON 8500, including TRUFORM™, an innovative rendering technology that helps to deliver the smoothest, most natural 3D images ever seen on existing and next-generation 3D games; and SMARTSHADER™, an advanced technology that is the first application of its kind to take advantage of Microsoft’s new DirectX 8.1 specification, including supporting Pixel Shaders Versions 1.2 – 1.4 to enable more complex and realistic texture and lighting effects without sacrificing Производительность.