Radeon 8500 Maxx - Dual GPU

[IllogickMind]

here's some info about ATI's upcoming
Radeon Maxx.
TweakTown
A dual GPU card with dual monitor support, apparently they have put in work in improving their 2D quality.
Now if they can come through with dirvers, Look out Matrox.
btw going by what's said on that forum the pic is fake, but ATI already have drivers for this card in their unified drivers.

[103er-Fan]

The question is how stable their MAXX resolution will be. The old Rage Fury MAXX had some problems, also it should be sure that this card won't be a real gaming card, as Rage3d stated, it targets the professional market.
And I am not sure about the price, but two chips and at least 128MB RAM won't be that cheap......
I would even say that this card will be bashed like the P. when the first benchmarks will be out, many people think 2xR200=double Radeon 8500 performance, but I doubt that it will do around 450fps in Quake III or over 16.000 points in 3dMark 2001, otherwise I might be again completely wrong

[IllogickMind]

i dont know but these features seem geared towards gamers ;

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

I don't know what the market for this card will be but didn't ATI just release a professional type OpenGL card?

[GT98]

Its a fake....

[Gurm]

The last MAXX card from them got recalled due to them NEVER PRODUCING DRIVERS for it. Not a single set. And you want another one why?

- Gurm

[APEXNETHOR]

Hehe that pic of that Dual GPU ATI G-card was a pretty decent photochop indeed but it has been said to be entirely a hoax.

[bsdgeek]

Looks like half a 8500 and half a 7500.

[IllogickMind]

Originally posted by Gurm
The last MAXX card from them got recalled due to them NEVER PRODUCING DRIVERS for it. Not a single set. And you want another one why?

- Gurm

I never said i wanted it, i was just passing on what i read. If u had bothered to read my post u would see that they have already made preparations in their drivers sets.

Those pics are definitely fake but the card itself is not.

[Kruzin]

Of course it is. Why would someone take the time to make up a fake pic for a fake card? It only makes sense that they would make up a fake pic for a real card.

[xortam]

Originally posted by Kruzin
... Why would someone take the time to make up a fake pic for a fake card? ...

You mean like that one of a couple years ago that included a graphics chip from everyone under the Sun? ... (waiting for the pic to get posted ) ...

[103er-Fan]

Originally posted by xortam
You mean like that one of a couple years ago that included a graphics chip from everyone under the Sun? ... (waiting for the pic to get posted ) ...

I bet you mean this one, right?


I am wondering how good it would perform today

[TdB]

what do you mean? it gets 425 bungholiomarks, NOTHING can beat that, they even used it for quake XIII, AND it got a "2000" in its name, I tell you it is better than sliced bread.

[BuddMan]

Jon Phillips is a great man....

[Pace]

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[ZokesPro]

That's a cool ad!