NX8500GT-TD512E - GeForce 8500GT, PCI Express, 512MB GDDR2, 128-bit, HDTV, TV-out + DVI

NVIDIA® TurboCache™ technology
TurboCache™ technology shares the capacity and bandwidth of dedicated video memory and dynamically available system memory for turbocarged performance and larger total graphics memory.

NVIDIA CineFX 5.0 Shading Architecture
- Microsoft Vista Features
- Next-generation Instancing
- Geometry Shaders
- Steamed Output
- 8 MRTs
- 32 bpp HDR Formats
- Shadow Maps
- Vertex shaders
- Support for Microsoft DirectX 10.0 Vertex Shader 4.0
- Encompass' Transform and Lighting
- Displacement mapping
- Geometry instancing
- Pixel shades
- Support for DirectX 10.0 Pixel Shader 4.0
- Support for full pixel branching
- Support for Multiple Render Targets (MRTs)
- Infinite-length pixel programs
- Next-generation texture engine
- Full 128-bit studio-quality floating point precision through the entire rendering pipeline,with native hardware support for 32 bpp,64 bpp,and 128 bpp rendering modes.

- 64-Bit Texture Filtering and Blending
- Full floating point is supported throughout entire pipeline
- Floating point filtering improves the quality of images in motion
- Floating point texturing drivers new levels of clarity and image detail
- Floating point frame buffer blending gives detail to special effects like motion blur and explosions

NVIDIA Intellisample 4.0 Technology
- Advanced 16X anisotropic filtering (up to 128 taps)
- Rotated-grid antialiasing for removing jagged edges for incredible edge quality
- Support for advanced lossless compression algorithms for color, texture,and z-data at higher resolutions and frame retes
- Fast z-clear
- Support for normal map compression
- New transparent supersampling and transparent multisampling antialiasing modes.

NVIDIA UltraShadow II Technology
- Designed to enhance the performance of shadow-intensive games,like id Software's Doom 3

NVIDIA SLI Technology
- Patented hardware and software technology allows two GPUs to run in parallel to scale performance
- Scales performance on over 60 top PC games and applications
- Support for NVIDIA nView multi-display for scalable performance across two displays.

NVIDIA PureVideo Technology
- Patented hardware and software technology allows two GPUs to run in parallel to scale performance
- Three dedicated video engines
- MPEG-2 HD and WMV HD video playback up to 1920 X1080p resolution
- H 264 hardware decode acceleration
- Decryption supported for all standard HD Video formats-AES-128 CTR mode,AES-128 CBC mode,and AES-128 ECB mode.
- Industry's most advanced video algorithms
- Overlay color temperature correction
- Microsoft Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) support for multiple video windows with full video quality and features in each window
- Integrated HDTV output.

Advanced Display Functionality
- Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for display resolutions up to and including 2048 X 1536 at 85 Hz
- Dual MIO ports for interfacing to external TMDS transmitters and external TV encoders
- Full NVIDIA nView multi-display technology capability

Advanced Engineering
- Designed for PCI Express X16
- Designed for high-speed GDDR3 and GDDR4 memory
- Cooling as low as 24 dB delivered by adcanced thermal managemenet and thermal monitoring

NVIDIA Digital Vibrance Control (DVC) 3.0 Technology
- DVC color controls
- DVC image sharpening controls

API Support
- Complete DirectX support,including the latest version of Microsoft DirectX 10.0 Shader Model 3.0
- Full OpenGL support,including OpenGL 2.0

MSI NX8500GT-TD512E, GeForce 8500 GT, GDDR2, 128 bit, 800 MHz, 2048 x 1536 pixels

MSI NX8500GT-TD512E. Graphics processor: GeForce 8500 GT, Processor frequency: 460 MHz. Graphics card memory type: GDDR2, Memory bus: 128 bit, Memory clock speed: 800 MHz. Maximum resolution: 2048 x 1536 pixels. DirectX version: 10.0, OpenGL version: 2.0, Dual Link DVI