The Latest: ATi R250 (Radeon 8500 MAXX)?

[jadison]

TweakTown has the full scoop on the new ATi R250 (Radeon 8500 MAXX) which includes the full spec list, details and a picture of the new graphics card. The internal document also includes bits and pieces of information about the highly anticipated R300. Here's a snip:

"A prime concern with customers was texture quality. The devs at ATI have taken this very seriously, and have taken great lengths to make the texture quality of the Radeon 8500 MAXX the best of any other 3D product, and from working development cards it is noticeable better than the 8500. Only other comments I will give on the R300 are 8 pipelines, and DirectX 9 support."

Read the full scoop here. (http://forums.tweaktown.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3313)

[dusty]

great looking card. when i get home from work, I will read the article. I wonder how big the difference will be between the two cards...?

Rick

[jadison]

Well for starters, here are some specs of the video card:

R8500 MAXX

Features
Truform™
Smartshader™
AFR™
DirectX 8.1® support
OpenGL® 1.3
Smoothvision™ Anti-aliasing
Hyper Z™ III
Charisma Engine™ II
Pixel Tapestry™ II
Video Immersion™ II
High Performance Memory Support
Dual Display Support
Integrated Transformation, Clipping and Lighting
Triple 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
Dual 400Mhz RAMDACS

[dusty]

I have also read where an r300 is being release also.. the Radeon 9000 and the Radeon 9700. But this was just on some boards I visited today.. Still cannot find anything on the ATI site..

Rick