GeForce 8500 GT Video Card - 512MB DDR2, PCI Express,
KFA2 GeForce 8500 GT Video Card Redefine your
gaming reality with the NVIDIA GeForce® 8500 GT 512MB PCI
Express graphics card (85GFE8HDFEXX) featuring the world's
first DirectX® 10 GPU and a powerful unified architecture that
delivers an incredibly true-to-life gaming experience. Power
through games at record speeds and charge through game maps
with vividly realistic, sun-up to sun-down HDR lighting
effects while steering clear of mind-blowing physics effects
such as explosions, fire, and smoke. Crank up 16x full-screen
anti-aliasing without missing a beat - no jaggies, no worries.
And relax watching your favorite movies with NVIDIA PureVideo™
technology.
Before you buy - make sure your
motherboard is compatible with this video card. For example,
PCI Express video cards won't work with motherboards designed
only for AGP or PCI video cards, and vice versa. Please read
the specifications carefully or call us for expert
advice.
Note: SLI is supported through
included software.
NVIDIA SLI (Scalable Link
Interface) NVIDIA SLI™ (Scalable Link Interface)
technology is a revolutionary approach to scalability
and increased performance. NVIDIA SLI takes advantage of
the increased bandwidth of the PCI Express™ bus
architecture, and features hardware and software
innovations within NVIDIA GPUs (graphics processing
units) and NVIDIA nForce4 MCPs (media and communications
processors). Together the NVIDIA SLI patent-pending
technologies work seamlessly to deliver heart-pounding
PC performance. And depending on the application, NVIDIA
SLI can deliver as much as 2x the performance of a
single GPU configuration for unparalleled gaming
experiences.
NVIDIA Unified Architecture Fully
unified shader core dynamically allocates processing
power to geometry, vertex, physics, or pixel shading
operations, delivering an incredibly true-to-life 3D
graphics.
NVIDIA Lumenex™ Engine Support for
128-bit and 64-bit floating point HDR with up to 16x
anti-aliasing delivering vividly realistic lighting
effects while obliterating ‘jaggies’.
NVIDIA Quantum Effects™
Technology Advanced shader processors architected
for physics computation deliver amazing performance and
visual effects such as smoke, fire, and
explosions.
Shader Model 4.0 Technology Get your
box geared up for the future of games with blazing fast
shader performance and watch your characters sweat with
Shader Model 4.0.
NVIDIA PureVideo HD Technology
Available on HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs,
high-definition movies are bringing an exciting new
video experience to PC users. NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD
technology lets you enjoy cinematic-quality HD DVD and
Blu-ray movies with low CPU utilization and power
consumption, allowing higher quality movie playback and
picture clarity.
High Dynamic Range (HDR) High
dynamic-range(HDR) lighting effects bring environments
to life for a truly immersive experience. It takes
advantage of the subtle light, texture, and color
intricacies to create incredibly realistic environments.
NVIDIA ForceWare It takes a powerful
suite of software to complement these complex
processors. NVIDIA ForceWare™ unified software
environment (USE) is the key to unleashing the full
power and features in NVIDIA’s desktop, platform,
mobile, and multimedia products. Delivering a proven
record of compatibility, reliability, and stability with
the widest range of games and applications, ForceWare
ensures the best out-of-box experience for every user
and delivers.
Windows Vista Ready Windows Vista is
the first operating system to require a GPU (Graphics
Processing Unit) to realize the best experience
possible.
PCI Express Support PCI Express is a
new Intel bus architecture that doubles the bandwidth of
the AGP 8X bus, delivering over 4 GB per second in both
upstream and downstream data transfers.
GPU/VPU:
NVIDIA
GeForce 8500 GT
RAMDAC:
Dual 400
MHz
Additional Features:
Vista
Ready
SLI
Ready
OpenGL
2.0
DirectX
10
Maximum Resolution:
2560 x 1600
(Digital)
Video Memory:
512MB
Memory Type:
DDR2
Core Clock:
450 MHz
Memory Interface:
128-bit
Memory Clock:
800 MHz
Shader Clock:
900 MHz
Stream Processors:
16
Interface Type:
PCI
Express
Interface Speed:
16x
Connector(s):
DVI
VGA (15-Pin
D-Sub)
HDTV/S-Video
A Closer Look
Features
Full DirectX 10 Support World's first
DirecX 10 GPU with full Shader Model 4.0 support
delivers unparalleled levels of graphic realism and
film-quality effects
OpenGL 2.0 Optimizations and
Support Ensures top-Notch compatiblity and
performance for OpenGL applications
NVIDIA Lumenex Engine Delivers stunning
image quality and floating point accuracy at
ultra-fast frame rates
NVIDIA Quantum Effects
Technology Advanced shader processors
architected for physics computation enable a new level
of physics effects to be simulated and rendered on the
GPU - all while freeing the CPU to run the game engine
and AI
GigaThread™ Technology Massively
multi-threaded architecture supports thousands of
independent, simultaneous threads, providing extreme
processing efficiency in advanced, next generation
shader programs.
NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD Technology The
combination of high-definition video decode
acceleration and post-processing that delivers
unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate
color, and precise image scaling for movies and video.
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