ATI Radeon 8500 Graphics Card: Technical Specifications
This document contains the technical specifications for the ATI Radeon 8500 Graphics card.
System requirements
Connectors
Specifications
Display configurations
Display support
Features
The following tables list the resolutions supported by the ATI Radeon 8500 Graphics card on the monitors indicated:
- AGP 4X, 2X - capable Macintosh
- Mac OS 9.2.1 or Mac OS 10.1
- QuickTime 5.0 or later
- OpenGL 1.2.2 or later
Connectors
- 15-pin VGA
- DVI-I
- S-video out
Specifications
- Radeon 8500 graphics accelerator
- 64 MB Double Data Rate (DDR) graphics memory
Display configurations
- CRT monitor
- Digital flat panel monitor
- TV
- CRT monitor and TV
- CRT monitor and CRT monitor
- Digital flat panel and TV
- CRT monitor and digital flat panel monitor
Display support
- DDC 2b/2b+ monitor support
- VESA display power management support
- Separate horizontal and vertical synchronization at tTTL levels
Features
- Full Open GL Support
- TRUFORM
- SMARTSHADER
- SMOOTHVISION (FSSA)
- HYPER Z ll
- CHARISMA ENGINE ll
- PIXEL TAPESTRY ll
- VIDEO IMMERSION ll
- 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
- Bi-linear/Tri-linear filtering
- Line anti-aliasing
- Full-scene 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
The following tables list the resolutions supported by the ATI Radeon 8500 Graphics card on the monitors indicated:
| Resolutions on Apple Studio Display LCD | |
| 640 by 480 | |
| 800 by 600 | |
| 1024 by 768 | |
| Resolutions on Apple Studio Display 17 (LCD) | |
| 640 by 480 | |
| 640 by 480 (stretched) | |
| 640 by 512 | |
| 800 by 600 | |
| 800 by 600 (stretched) | |
| 800 by 640 | |
| 1024 by 768 | |
| 1024 by 768 (stretched) | |
| 1024 by 820 | |
| 1280 by 1024 | |
| Resolutions on Apple Cinema Display | |
| 640 by 480 | |
| 640 by 480 (stretched) | |
| 800 by 500 | |
| 800 by 512 | |
| 800 by 600 | |
| 800 by 600 (stretched) | |
| 1024 by 656 | |
| 1024 by 768 | |
| 1024 by 768 (stretched) | |
| 1024 by 820 | |
| 1280 by 1024 | |
| 1600 by 1024 | |
| Resolutions on Apple Cinema Display HD | |
| 640 by 480 | |
| 640 by 480 (stretched) | |
| 800 by 500 | |
| 800 by 600 | |
| 800 by 600 (stretched) | |
| 960 by 600 | |
| 1024 by 640 | |
| 1024 by 768 | |
| 1024 by 768 (stretched) | |
| 1280 by 800 | |
| 1280 by 960 | |
| 1280 by 960 (stretched) | |
| 1344 by 840 | |
| 1920 by 1200 | |
| Resolution on CRT Displays | Refresh rate (Hz) |
| 512 by 384 | 60 |
| 640 by 480 | 120 |
| 640 by 870 | 75 |
| 800 by 600 | 120 |
| 1920 by 1200 | 85 |
| 832 by 624 | 75 |
| 1024 by 768 | 120 |
| 1152 by 870 | 75 |
| 1280 by 1024 | 75 |
| 1600 by 1024 | 85 |
| 1600 by 1200 | 76 |
| 1600 by 1344 | 85 |
| 1792 by 1344 | 75 |
| 1856 by 1392 | 75 |
| 1920 by 1080 | 72 |
| 1920 by 1200 | 76 |
| 1920 by 1440 | 75 |
| 2048 by 1536 | 75 |
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