Hercules 3D Prophet 8500 LE 128MB

3D Prophet 8500 LE 128MB offers 128MB DDR RAM connected to an outrageously fast RADEON 8500LE chipset from ATI, ensuring ultra-high frame rates - even above 1600x1200 - in next-generation games that push extensive use of polygons, massive textures and detailed settings. And between games, users also have access to the amazing multimedia features when watching the latest DVD movies on their TV

UNPREDEDENTED 3D ARCHITECTURE AND MORE MEMORY
FOR ULTRA-HIGH FRAME RATES IN GAMES

Superior 3D architecture powered by ATI's new generation RADEON™ 8500LE GPU

Extremely fast chipset and RAM: 128MB DDR RAM to run the most extensive polygons and texture-rich applications at the highest resolutions.

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

AGP universal bus (for AGP4X/2X systems)


RICH MULTI-TEXTURING, ADVANCED SKINNING FOR TOTAL IMMERSION IN LIFE-LIKE WORLDS

Fully DirectX® 8.1 & OpenGL®1.3 compliant

SMARTSHADER™ & PIXEL TAPESTRY™ II technology: support for new programmable Vertex & Pixel Shader engines and next generation DirectX 8.1 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 whatever the surface thanks to 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

THE BEST OF 3D COMBINED WITH ADVANCED MULTIMEDIA FEATURES

High-quality TV encoder (RAGE THEATER™) supporting 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