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Anyone have any info on upcoming VIVO cards, maybe for the 9500 Pro? The only current card I could find it the HIS 9000 Pro VIVO card: http://markt.golem.de/1-952e2.html
Or any info on the 9100? Is this going to be DX9 or x8 AGP?
I recently upgraded my card from a Radeon 64MB VIVO to a Radeon 8500le 64MB. The 8500 is in fact DX 9.0 and Catalyst 3.0
compatible, oc'ed and pretty good for $100CDN. The one thing I noticed is that avi-divx-mpeg playback quality is poorer on the 8500. Games are better looking and I get more fps. OpenGL support is much improved.
no 8500 is not dx9 hardware compatible, the drivers are, cat. 3.0 are compatible with dx9, but extra speed from dx9 on a 8500 is not likely, maybe the drivers, burt not dx9.
In order to take advantage of cat.3.0 you need to install dx9. So the glass is either half empty or half full. I believe you are correct in the assesment that the 8500 will not take advantage of dx9 improvements even though it is nessecary for installation of cat3.0
