ATI Unveils New Radeon

August 14, 2001 6:52 AM

ATI today announced their new family of Radeon cards, based on newer technology. The one we as gamers should all look at is the Radeon 8500. Here's what that puppy will have

The Ultimate Gaming Graphics Card The RADEON 8500 is powered by the most advanced graphics technology in the world, and features 64MB of DDR (double data rate) memory, digital flat panel (DVI) support as well as dual monitor and video output, and DVD (digital versatile disc) video playback. The first gaming card with complete hardware support for DirectX 8.1, the RADEON 8500 will be available in late September and has an MSRP of (US) $399.

There's some previews on Gamespot, AnandTech and Inside Mac Games. Besides the Radeon 8500 there's also a 7500 ("It delivers up to a 60 percent improvement in performance compared to the previous generation of RADEON high-performance processors") and the FireGL 8800 card. Even The Carmack has stated that this next gen Radeon processor has the potential to be great. Also Voodoo Extreme has a quote from Tim Sweeney. Lets hope ATI does a good job on the drivers and offer some real competition to the GeForce 3. Because we all love price wars, right?