Overview:

At-a-glance

• Powered by the RADEON™ 7500 graphics processing unit (GPU)
• High performance 3D graphics featuring ATI’s CHARISMA ENGINE™, PIXEL TAPESTRY™ and HYPER Z™ technologies
• RADEON™ 7500 display engine enables many combinations of CRT (VGA), digital flat panel (DVI), and TV displays.
• Hydravision™ Multiple Monitor Management Software provides a flexible, user-friendly interface for multiple display settings
• Supports DirectX 8.0® and OpenGL®
• Features DVI interface with integrated 165MHz TMDS transmitter for resolutions up to 1600 x 1200
• Industry-leading DVD video playback
• Supports 3D resolutions (32-bit color) up to 2048x1536
• AGP universal bus (for AGP 2X/4X systems)

Features:

High performance 3D and 2D

• RADEON 7500 comes powered by up to 64MB of DDR memory to accelerate latest 2D and 3D graphics, productivity applications and games
• With DDR memory you have twice the memory bandwidth for the highest data transfer rates through the pipeline
• Delivers immersive, realistic 32-bit true color graphics without performance decline
• High resolution 32-bit 3D graphics up to 2048x1536
• Full support of and compliance with powerful DirectX® and OpenGL® applications

Outstanding visual experience

• CHARISMA ENGINE supports full Transformation, Clipping and Lighting (T&L) at up to 40.0 million triangles/second peak processing capability
• Features HYPER Z technology to boost effective memory bandwidth by over 20% (8.8 GB/sec)
• PIXEL TAPESTRY, the RADEON 7500 3D rendering engine, powers an incredible 1.6 Gigatexels per second for unsurpassed graphics performance

Flexible dual monitor support

• RADEON 7500 technology supports combinations of traditional CRT monitors, flat panel displays and TV
• HYDRAVISION™ Multiple Monitor Management Software provides flexible and user friendly support that drastically increases productivity and efficiency in a multiple monitor setting
  - Multi-task with MultiDesk – Create, name, and organize up to nine active multi-monitor desktops
  - Assign Hot Key shortcuts for the functions you use most often: moving active windows or applications, accessing controls on the fly, or opening applications – with a single keystroke
  - Set your applications to automatically open in your preferred position on your monitors using the Application Position Memory feature – eliminating the need to reset your settings every time you turn on your computer is turned on
  - Learn more about HYDRAVISION

Industry leading DVD playback

• ATI’s VIDEO IMMERSION™ engine allows for adaptive de-interlacing for best quality motion video and text
• Process full-frame rate, full-screen DVD or MPEG-2 video
• Hardware DVD saves the expense of buying a separate MPEG-2/DVD decoder card: motion compensation and IDCT allow for DVD decoding with minimum CPU usage
• HDTV ready

Reliable and proven technology

• RADEON™ 7500 employs the award-winning technology from ATI’s successful graphics accelerators for consistent, stable performance
• Quality product from the world’s largest manufacturer of graphics boards means reduced cost of ownership – less downtime, low power consumption, full technical support, and 3-year limited warranty

Specifications:

System requirements

• Pentium® 4/Celeron™/III/II, AMD® K6/Athlon® or compatible with AGP 2X or AGP 2X/4X universal slot
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
• DVD playback requires DVD drive on PCs with an Intel® Pentium® II processor (or equivalent) and 32MB of system memory

Graphics controller

• RADEON™ 7500 graphics processing unit (GPU)

Memory configuration

• 64MB DDR

Operating systems support

• Windows® 98 SE
• Windows® Me
• Windows® 2000
• Windows® XP* Support will be available when OS ships

Monitor support

• CRT Monitor: 15-pin VGA connector
• S-Video or composite connector
• DVI-I (flat panel display) connector

Display support

• Register compatible with VGA
• BIOS compatible with VESA for super VGA
• DDC1/2b/2b+ monitor support
• VESA Display Power Management Support
• Separate horizontal & vertical synchronization at TTL levels

Features

• CHARISMA ENGINE™
• HYPER Z™ technology
• PIXEL TAPESTRY™ architecture
• VIDEO IMMERSION™ technology
• Integrated Transformation, Clipping and Lighting
• Twin 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

Limited Warranty

• 3-year limited

2D display modes
Resolutions, colors and maximum refresh rates (Hz) in 256, 65K or 16.7M colors

Monitor Resolution Hz
- 640x480 = 200
- 800x600 = 200
- 1024x768 = 200
- 1152x864 = 150
- 1280x1024 = 130
- 1600x1200 = 120
- 1920x1080 = 90
- 1920x1200 = 75
- 1920x1440 = 75
- 2048x1536 = 75