• 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
  
• SupportsL® 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 universal bus (for AGP 2X/4X systems)
  

Features

Unsurpassed 3D gaming

• 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
  

Best visual effects

• 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 withL® 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
  

Dual monitor support

• 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
  
  

• 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
  

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 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 (support available when OS ships)
  

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
  

Features

• TRUFORM™
  
• SMARTSHADER™
  
• DirectX® 8.1 support
  
• L® 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

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

Maximum 3D resolutions