This chip is presented by ATI RADEON 9100 (8500LE) 128MB, AGP.

Features:

• ATI RADEON 9100 (8500LE) GPU, 250MHz clock rate;
• 128MB DDR SGRAM in 8 Infineon 3.6 ns chips; 250 (500) MHz clock rate; 128-bit bus;
• Peak fill rate in the multitexturing mode is 1000 megapixels/sec and 2000 megatexels/sec.

Wasn't overclocked.

By the end of the month the product belongs to the $75-95 range; supports DirectX 8.1; closest rival: GeForce3 Ti 500.

Theoretical and analytical videocard reviews, containing functional analysis of ATI RADEON 8500

• ATI RADEON 8500 basic review
• PowerMagic RADEON 7500/8500 review - new 7.206 drivers perfomance, including SmoothVision; RADEON 8500 3D graphics quality.
• Manli and Sunrich RADEON 7500/8500 review - SmoothVision perfomance; RADEON 8500 3D graphics quality (continued)
• SuperGrace RADEON 7500/8500 review - TRUFORM perfomance; RADEON 8500 3D graphics quality (continued)
• Gigabyte MAYA AP64D-H RADEON 8500 Deluxe review - Pixel Shaders perfomance in Advanced Pixel Shader Test from 3DMark03 SE
• Joytech Apollo RADEON 7500 SDR 64MB and 128MB review
• Joytech Apollo Devil Monster II RADEON 8500LE 128MB and Hercules 3D Prophet FDX 8500LE 64MB review - Perfomance of RADEON 8500 128MB cards
• Palit XpertVision RADEON 8500 on ATI RADEON 8500LE review - RADEON 8500LE performance in RtCW, Comanche4 DEMO, 3DMark03 SE
• Gigabyte MAYA AP128DG-H RADEON 8500 Deluxe 128MB and Hercules 3D Prophet 8500 128MB review - anisotropy issues (quality-accented) in 3DMark03 SE, RtCW, Serious Sam:TSE, Comanche4 DEMO, Unreal Tournament 2003 DEMO
• Jetway RADEON 8500 275/550 MHz 64MB and 7500 265/390 MHz 64MB review
• Gigabyte MAYA AP128DG-H3 RADEON 8500 Deluxe 128MB 300/600 MHz review

On August 10, 2003 no new ATI drivers are available for Windows XP.

I shall note there's Radeon2.ru web-site that tracks all software novelties from ATI and offers improved drivers versions with preset registry settings for increasing RADEON cards perfomance.

Some versions have problems with refresh rate setting in some resolutions.

As you know, RADEON 8500 supports the very interesting feature and advantage - N-Patches (TruForm). All details are in our R200 analysis and in the mentioned RADEON 8500.

I recommend you to read the SuperGrace RADEON 7500/8500 review describing TRUEFORM technology in detail on the example of Serious Sam.

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