Radeon8500LE Announced

[BenSkywalker]

Linkage.

"Based on the award-winning RADEON 8500 chip architecture, the RADEON 8500LE affords customers all of the industry-leading features of the world's fastest and most technologically advanced graphics chip at a cost that is extremely appealing to a broader group of customers and at a performance level (250 MHz (megahertz) core clock speed compared to the RADEON 8500's 275 MHz core clock speed) that would satisfy even the most power-hungry game or application. While ATI is marketing the RADEON 8500 through retail outlets worldwide, it is not selling the RADEON 8500LE through retail under the ATI brand name. ATI will only distribute the RADEON 8500LE to OEMs, ODMs and AIBs, who will then market the technology under their own brand names, selling it to systems integrators, distributors and retailers."

(There is more info if you follow the link like which board makers are making Radeon parts, props to DaveBaumann for pointing this out over at B3D).

 

[Rand]

At least this resolves thie issues of the differing clockspeeds of the Radeon 8500 in retail and OEM.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

So OEM Radeon 8500 boards are basically 8500LEs? I may not have to worry about it too much, I recieved an e-mail earlier from Dell announcing that my retail 8500 will be shipped on the 8th. If it does not ship and it happens to be further delayed, I will commence my worries

 

[The_Lurker]

Now if only the Radeon 8500 LE will be priced like the Radeon LE is =)

 

[Killrose]

Hopefully it will have all the 8500 features like Truform and (whenever they get around to it), the elusive Smoothvision feature.
This ought to lower the cost of the 7500 as well.

Any rumors as to when the drivers with Smoothvision are to be released?

 

[Rand]

<< Hopefully it will have all the 8500 features like Truform and (whenever they get around to it), the elusive Smoothvision feature.
This ought to lower the cost of the 7500 as well.
>>



It is for all intents and puroposes identical to the current OEM Radeon 8500, so it will be selling at the same price as the OEM 8500 previously did, and have all the same features. Indeed, it's only really mean to replace the OEM 8500 so as to diferentiate the Rateil and OEM parts due to their differing performance.


<<
Any rumors as to when the drivers with Smoothvision are to be released? >>


Everything I've heard has been the same as I've heard since release... November for Smoothvision.