Hercules 3D Prophet 8500 128MB

3D Prophet 8500 128MB is an extremely fast board based on the revolutionary RADEON™ 8500 chipset from ATI. Equipped with an AGP 4X/2X graphics accelerator, and fully DirectX® 8.1 & OpenGL®1.3 compliant, it is dedicated to providing hardcore gamers with the ultimate 3D platform for boosting their scores and improving graphics quality in the latest 3D games. It radically transforms personal PCs into high-speed professional gaming machines.

3D PERFORMANCE REDIFINING THE STANDARD
FOR PROFESSIONAL GAMEPLAY

Revolutionary 3D architecture powered by ATI's latest generation GPU: RADEON™ 8500

128MB DDR RAMconnected to an outrageously fast chipset to maintain extremely high frame rates in next-generation games, polygons thick with massive textures and detailed settings.

HYPERZ™II: intelligent memory saving technology (Fast Z clear, Z compression, Hierarchical Z)

AGP universal bus (for AGP4X/2X systems)


PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF CINEMATIC STYLE REAL-TIME 3D GRAPHICS

Fully DirectX® 8.1 & OpenGL®1.3 compliant

SMARTSHADER™ & PIXEL TAPESTRY™ II technology: support for new programmable Vertex & Pixel Shader engines and next generation 3D features

4 rendering pipelines, each capable of processing 3 texels

DirectX 8.1 Pixel Shader 1.4: up to 6 textures applied to a pixel in a single pass

Advanced rendering: fur effects, procedural deformation, multiple bump maps (EMBM with up to 4 lights…), Horizon mapping

Realistic lighting on any surface with multiple light sources (True Per Pixel Phong Shading)

CHARISMA ENGINE™ II: Full Transformation, Clipping & Lighting engine: up to 75 million triangles/second

TRUFORM™: revolutionary process to make 3D shapes smoother by transforming triangles into curved surfaces

SMOOTHVISION™ combined with Anisotropic Filtering for the most advanced Anti-Aliasing (FSAA) available


FLEXIBLE ADVANCED MULTIMEDIA FEATURES

High-quality TV encoder (RAGE THEATER™) offering resolutions of up to 1024x768 in NTSC & PAL

Integrated DVI transmitter for displaying on digital flat panels in 16 million colors

VIDEO IMMERSION™ II: highly optimized DVD playback with iDCT & Motion Compensation

Display enhancement with Enhanced Adaptive Per Pixel De-Interlacing & Temporal De-interlacing

DUAL DISPLAY with HYDRAVISION™: flexible display and extended desktop mode (different display on 2 screens): VGA + TV or VGA + DVI or DVI + TV