Info on new VIVO cards or 9100?

IITravel · Nov 28, 2002, 05:19 AM

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?

Oscar · Dec 26, 2002, 04:06 AM

I think Radeon 9100 is basically rebranded Radeon 8500LE, so it should be DirectX 8.1 compatible.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=1039439492

Zarathustra · Dec 26, 2002, 12:23 PM

Yep the 9100 is a rebadged 8500. People still buy em like hotcakes, so ATI just renamed it to show that is really is faster than a 9000.

Not sure on full VIVO features for non-AIW cards though man.

wrathman22 · Jan 5, 2003, 04:37 AM

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.

Erroneus · Jan 5, 2003, 06:19 AM

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.

wrathman22 · Jan 5, 2003, 05:22 PM

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

CignaXI · Jan 10, 2003, 04:19 AM

Does anyone knows if the sapphire version of the 9100 has fullstream support. Is there any way to enable fullstream support on the old 8500le?