ATI RADEON 8500 & 7500 Review
By Vince Freeman :
December 3, 2001
ATI RADEON 8500 and 7500 Specifications
RADEON 8500 Specifications
Graphics controller
- 275 MHz RADEON 8500 GPU (R200)
Memory configuration
- 64MB of 275 MHz (550 MHz DDR) 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
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 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
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
Warranty
RADEON 7500 Specifications
Graphics controller
- 290 MHz RADEON 7500 GPU (RV200)
Memory configuration
- 64MB of 230 MHz (460 MHz DDR) of double data rate memory
Operating systems support
- Windows 98/98SE
- Windows Me
- Windows 2000
- Windows NT 4.0
- Windows XP
Monitor support
- CRT Monitor: 15-pin VGA connector
- 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 & vertical synchronization at TTL levels
Features
- CHARISMA ENGINE
- HYPER Z technology
- PIXEL TAPESTRY architecture
- VIDEO IMMERSION technology
- 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
System requirements
- Pentium 4/Celeron/III/II, AMD K6/Athlon or compatible with AGP 2X or AGP 2X/4X universal slot
- Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
- DVD playback requires DVD drive on PCs with an Intel Pentium II processor (or equivalent) and 32MB of system memory
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Warranty
