Introduction

ATI has recently taken charge, changed their target market, and given some stiff competition to NVIDIA. The most well known Radeon's are the 7500, 8500, and All-In-Wonder 8500DV. All three of those cards feature DDR memory which essentially double the memory bandwidth over SDRAM. There are less powerful Radeon's that ATI offers, the 7200 and 7000 which both feature SDRAM.

Today we will be taking a look at the 7500. We should be reviewing both the 8500 and 8500DV in the very near future so look for that in the upcoming weeks.

Let's just jump into the review and start off by taking a look at the specs and features.

Specs

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® 98/98SE
• Windows® Me
• Windows® 2000
• Windows® NT 4.0
• Windows® XP

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

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