Gigabyte ATi Radeon8500 AP64D-H Review

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Gigabyte ATi Radeon8500 AP64D-H Review
Overclocker 18 Mar 2002

Gigabyte has been a well known name in the mainboard industry. Lately they are venturing into other areas like graphics and networking. While you probably know that we review lots of mainboards, we are also into other peripherals too. This review focuses on the Gigabyte's ATi Radeon8500 offering AP64D-H and we will see how it performs. Gigabyte provided lots of interesting software applications to bundle with the card. 6 games are bundled with it and there is also the vtuner which you could use just like powerstrip to "overclock" your card in terms of memory and core clock.

AP64D-H ATi Radeon 8500 Graphics Accelerator
Graphics controller
	RADEON^™ 8500 graphics processing unit (GPU)
Memory configuration
	64MB of double data rate memory(DDR)
Unique Features of MAYA
	Hardware monitor enable , support Fan speed , core clock , Memory clock , and voltage.
	DATA output by V-Tuner Tweaker.
	Huge FanSink with Double Side , no more overheat.
	V-Tuner Tweaker supported, can overclock your GPU and Memory speed.
3D Features
	Features ATI's innovative TRUFORM^™ technology
	ATI's new SMARTSHADER^™ technology
	Supports DirectX^® 8.1 and OpenGL^® 1.3 features
	SMOOTHVISION^™ anti-aliasing
	ATI's HYPER Z^™ II technology conserves memory bandwidth for improved performance
	CHARISMA ENGINE^™ II supports full Transformation, Clipping and Lighting (T&L)
	PIXEL TAPESTRY^™ II
	Integrated Transformation, Clipping and Lighting
	Twin Cache Architecture
	SuperScalar Rendering
	Single-Pass Multi-texturing
	True Color Rendering
	Specular Highlights
	Perspectively Correct Texture Mapping
	Z-buffering and Double-buffering
Industry leading DVD playback
	ATI's VIDEO IMMERSION^™ II technology enables integration of industry-leading digital video features, including advanced de-interlacing algorithms for unprecedented video quality and integrated digital TV decode capability
	Includes programmable gamma for the overlay and Frame Rate Conversion (Temporal Filtering)
	Hardware DVD saves the expense of buying a separate MPEG-2/DVD decoder card and motion compensation allows for DVD decoding with minimum CPU usage
Output
	D-Sub , S-Video , DVI-I
Bundle Software
	CyberLink PowerDVD XP
	Serious Sam (Game CD)
	Heavy Metal F.A.K.K.2 (Game CD)
	Rune (Game CD)
	Motocross Mania (Game CD)
	4X4 EVO and Oni (in 1 CD, Lite version)

Let's take a look at the gallery of the AP64D-H on the next 2 pages followed by the benchmarks.