NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT - Driver Download. Vendor:. Product: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT. Hardware Class: DISPLAY. Search For More Drivers.: Go! Windows 10 32-Bit Driver.
- This card replaces the original GeForce 7300 that came installed in my Mac Pro 1,1; that one finally died after about a decade of service. The 8800 was incredibly easy to install - total time, 10 minutes. Runs much quieter and has brought my old machine back to life! 2 people found this helpful.
- The package provides the installation files for NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT Display Driver (WDDM1.1, Graphics Adapter WDDM1.2, Graphics Adapter WDDM1.3) version 9. In order to manually update your driver, follow the steps below (the next steps): 1.
Overview
- Powered by the revolutionary RADEON™ 8500 – world’s fastest and most advanced graphics processing unit (GPU)
- Features ATI’s TRUFORM™, SMARTSHADER™ and SMOOTHVISION™, and HYPER™ Z II technologies
- The only GPU to support DirectX® 8.1
- Supports OpenGL® 1.3 features
- 64MB of powerful double data rate (DDR) memory
- Latest 3D games support the advanced features of RADEON™ 8500
- Dual monitor and Video output support
- Industry-leading DVD video playback
- Digital Flat Panel (DVI) support
- Supports 3D resolutions (32-bit color) up to 2048×1536
- AGP universal bus (for AGP 2X/4X systems)
- Designed and manufactured by ATI
- Featuring CATALYST™ – ATI’s industry-leading software suite with frequently scheduled free updates providing additional features and performance over the product’s lifetime
Features
- Powered by the revolutionary RADEON™ 8500 GPU and 64MB of DDR memory for the fastest and most advanced 3D graphics on the market
- Features ATI’s innovative TRUFORM™ technology that makes the outlines of 3D characters and objects look smoother and more natural than ever before
- High resolution 32-bit 3D gaming up to 2048×1536
- ATI’s HYPER Z™ II technology conserves memory bandwidth for improved performance in demanding applications and boosts effective bandwidth by over 25%
- SMOOTHVISION™ anti-aliasing – the most advanced anti-aliasing to eliminate distracting visual artifacts for smoother looking images and without serious performance compromise
- ATI’s new SMARTSHADER™ technology takes advantage of the DirectX® 8.1 features to enable more complex and realistic texture and lighting effects
- The only graphics board to support DirectX® 8.1
- Best performance for today’s and tomorrow’s demanding applications
- Full support and compliance with OpenGL® 1.3 applications
- CHARISMA ENGINE™ II supports full Transformation, Clipping and Lighting (T&L) at 75 million triangles/second peak processing capability
- PIXEL TAPESTRY™ II, the RADEON™ 8500 3D rendering engine, powers an incredible 2.4 Gigatexels per second for the highest fill rates in 32-bit at high resolutions
- Leading-edge HYDRAVISION™ technology supports traditional CRT monitors, flat panel displays and TVs
- Multi-task with MultiDesk – play multi-monitor games, or work in different applications on each monitor without having to switch back-and-forth
- Assign ‘Hot Key’ shortcuts for the most used functions
- Vary settings from one application to the next, or choose global settings that determine the behavior of windows and dialog boxes for all applications in your multi-monitor environment
- Learn more about HYDRAVISION™
- ATI’s VIDEO IMMERSION™ II technology enables integration of industry-leading digital video features, including advanced de-interlacing algorithms for unprecedented video quality and integrated digital TV decode capability
- Includes programmable gamma for the overlay and Frame Rate Conversion (Temporal Filtering)
- Hardware DVD saves the expense of buying a separate MPEG-2/DVD decoder card and motion compensation allows for DVD decoding with minimum CPU usage
- HDTV ready
- RADEON™ 8500 uses RAGE THEATER™ companion chip for high quality video output
- Features 165MHz integrated TMDS transmitter to support DVI up to UXGA (1600×1200) resolution
- Get all of the incredible 3D and DVD of RADEON™ 8500 with the benefit of flat panels – crisper images, significantly reduced eyestrain and space savings
- Use video-out to connect your PC to TV or VCR
Geforce 8500 For Mac Os
Radeon 8500 Series Specifications
- Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron™, AMD® K6/Athlon® or compatible with AGP 2X or AGP 2X/4X universal slot
- 64MB of system memory
- Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
- DVD playback requires DVD drive
- RADEON™ 8500 graphics processing unit (GPU)
- 64MB of double data rate memory
- Windows® 98/98SE
- Windows® Me
- Windows® 2000
- Windows® XP
- CRT Monitor: 15-pin VGA connector
- TV and VCR: s-video or composite connector
- DVI-I (flat panel display) connector
- Register compatible with VGA
- BIOS compatible with VESA for super VGA
- DDC1/2b/2b+ monitor support
- VESA Display Power Management Support
- Separate horizontal and vertical synchronization at TTL levels
- DirectX® 8.1 support
- OpenGL® 1.3
- SMOOTHVISION™ anti-aliasing
- CHARISMA ENGINE™ II
- PIXEL TAPESTRY™ II
- High Performance Memory Support
- Dual Display Support
- Integrated Transformation, Clipping and Lighting
- Twin Cache Architecture
- SuperScalar Rendering
- Single-Pass Multi-texturing
- True Color Rendering
- Triangle Setup Engine
- Texture Cache
- Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering
- Line & Edge Anti-aliasing
- Full-Screen Anti-aliasing
- Texture Compositing
- Texture Decompression
- Specular Highlights
- Perspectively Correct Texture Mapping
- Mip-Mapping
- Z-buffering and Double-buffering
- Emboss, Dot Product 3 and Environment bump mapping
- Spherical, Dual-Paraboloid and Cubic environment mapping
- Fog effects, texture lighting, video textures, reflections, shadows, spotlights, LOD biasing and texture morphing
- 3-year limited warranty
2D display modes: resolutions, colors and maximum refresh rates (Hz) in 256, 65K or 16.7M colors
Monitor Resolution | Hz |
640×480 | 200 |
800×600 | 200 |
1024×768 | 200 |
1152×864 | 200 |
1280×1024 | 160 |
1600×1200 | 120 |
1920×1080 | 120 |
1920×1200 | 100 |
1920×1440 | 90 |
2048×1536 | 85 |
Maximum 3D resolutions
64M | |
65K colors | 2048×1536 |
16.7M colors | 2048×1536 |
Find the compute capability of the latest CUDA Capable NVIDIA GPUs.
Click on sections below to expandTesla Workstation Products
GPU | Compute Capability |
---|---|
Tesla C2075 | 2.0 |
Tesla C2050/C2070 | 2.0 |
Tesla C1060 | 1.3 |
Tesla C870 | 1.0 |
Tesla D870 | 1.0 |
Tesla Data Center Products
GPU | Compute Capability |
---|---|
Tesla M2050/M2070/M2075/M2090 | 2.0 |
Tesla S1070 | 1.3 |
Tesla M1060 | 1.3 |
Tesla S870 | 1.0 |
Quadro Desktop Products
GPU | Compute Capability |
---|---|
Quadro 6000 | 2.0 |
Quadro 5000 | 2.0 |
Quadro 4000 | 2.0 |
Quadro 4000 for Mac | 2.0 |
Quadro 2000 | 2.1 |
Quadro 2000D | 2.1 |
Quadro 600 | 2.1 |
Quadro 400 | 1.2 |
Quadro FX 5800 | 1.3 |
Quadro FX 5600 | 1.0 |
Quadro FX 4800 | 1.3 |
Quadro FX 4800 for Mac | 1.3 |
Quadro FX 4700 X2 | 1.1 |
Quadro FX 4600 | 1.0 |
Quadro FX 3800 | 1.3 |
Quadro FX 3700 | 1.1 |
Quadro FX 1800 | 1.1 |
Quadro FX 1700 | 1.1 |
Quadro FX 580 | 1.1 |
Quadro FX 570 | 1.1 |
Quadro FX 470 | 1.1 |
Quadro FX 380 | 1.1 |
Quadro FX 380 Low Profile | 1.2 |
Quadro FX 370 | 1.1 |
Quadro FX 370 Low Profile | 1.1 |
Quadro CX | 1.3 |
Quadro NVS 450 | 1.1 |
Quadro NVS 420 | 1.1 |
NVIDIA NVS 300 | 1.2 |
Quadro NVS 295 | 1.1 |
Quadro Plex 7000 | 2.0 |
Quadro Plex 2200 D2 | 1.3 |
Quadro Plex 2100 D4 | 1.1 |
Quadro Plex 2100 S4 | 1.0 |
Quadro Mobile Products
GPU | Compute Capability |
---|---|
Quadro 5010M | 2.0 |
Quadro 5000M | 2.0 |
Quadro 4000M | 2.1 |
Quadro 3000M | 2.1 |
Quadro 2000M | 2.1 |
Quadro 1000M | 2.1 |
Quadro FX 3800M | 1.1 |
Quadro FX 3700M | 1.1 |
Quadro FX 3600M | 1.1 |
Quadro FX 2800M | 1.1 |
Quadro FX 2700M | 1.1 |
Quadro FX 1800M | 1.2 |
Quadro FX 1700M | 1.1 |
Quadro FX 1600M | 1.1 |
Quadro FX 880M | 1.2 |
Quadro FX 770M | 1.1 |
Quadro FX 570M | 1.1 |
Quadro FX 380M | 1.2 |
Quadro FX 370M | 1.1 |
Quadro FX 360M | 1.1 |
Quadro NVS 320M | 1.1 |
Quadro NVS 160M | 1.1 |
Quadro NVS 150M | 1.1 |
Quadro NVS 140M | 1.1 |
Quadro NVS 135M | 1.1 |
Quadro NVS 130M | 1.1 |
Desktop Products
GPU | Compute Capability |
---|---|
Quadro NVS 450 | 1.1 |
Quadro NVS 420 | 1.1 |
NVIDIA NVS 315 | 2.1 |
NVIDIA NVS 310 | 2.1 |
NVIDIA NVS 300 | 1.2 |
Quadro NVS 295 | 1.1 |
Mobile Products
GPU | Compute Capability |
---|---|
NVS 5400M | 2.1 |
NVS 5200M | 2.1 |
NVS 4200M | 2.1 |
NVS 5100M | 1.2 |
NVS 3100M | 1.2 |
NVS 2100M | 1.2 |
GeForce Desktop Products
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GPU | Compute Capability |
---|---|
GeForce GTX 295 | 1.3 |
GeForce GTX 285 | 1.3 |
GeForce GTX 285 for Mac | 1.3 |
GeForce GTX 280 | 1.3 |
GeForce GTX 275 | 1.3 |
GeForce GTX 260 | 1.3 |
1.0 | |
GeForce GT 240 | 1.2 |
1.2 | |
1.2 | |
GeForce GTS 250 | 1.1 |
GeForce GTS 150 | 1.1 |
1.1 | |
1.1 | |
1.1 | |
GeForce 9800 GX2 | 1.1 |
GeForce 9800 GTX+ | 1.1 |
GeForce 9800 GTX | 1.1 |
GeForce 9600 GSO | 1.1 |
GeForce 9500 GT | 1.1 |
GeForce 8800 GTS | 1.1 |
GeForce 8800 GT | 1.1 |
GeForce 8800 GS | 1.1 |
GeForce 8600 GTS | 1.1 |
GeForce 8600 GT | 1.1 |
GeForce 8500 GT | 1.1 |
GeForce 8400 GS | 1.1 |
GeForce 9400 mGPU | 1.1 |
GeForce 9300 mGPU | 1.1 |
GeForce 8300 mGPU | 1.1 |
GeForce 8200 mGPU | 1.1 |
GeForce 8100 mGPU | 1.1 |
GeForce 8800 Ultra | 1.0 |
GeForce 8800 GTX | 1.0 |
1.0 | |
1.0 | |
1.0 | |
1.0 | |
1.0 | |
GeForce 9800 GT | 1.0 |
GeForce 9600 GT | 1.0 |
GeForce 9400GT | 1.0 |
Nvidia Geforce 8500 Gt 512mb
GeForce Notebook Products
GPU | Compute Capability |
---|---|
GeForce GTS 360M | 1.2 |
GeForce GTS 350M | 1.2 |
GeForce GT 335M | 1.2 |
GeForce GT 330M | 1.2 |
GeForce GT 325M | 1.2 |
GeForce GT 240M | 1.2 |
GeForce G210M | 1.2 |
GeForce 710M | 2.1 |
GeForce 410M | 2.1 |
GeForce 310M | 1.2 |
GeForce 305M | 1.2 |
GeForce GTX 285M | 1.1 |
GeForce GTX 280M | 1.1 |
GeForce GTX 260M | 1.1 |
GeForce 9800M GTX | 1.1 |
GeForce 8800M GTX | 1.1 |
GeForce GTS 260M | 1.1 |
GeForce GTS 250M | 1.1 |
GeForce 9800M GT | 1.1 |
GeForce 9600M GT | 1.1 |
GeForce 8800M GTS | 1.1 |
GeForce 9800M GTS | 1.1 |
GeForce GT 230M | 1.1 |
GeForce 9700M GT | 1.1 |
GeForce 9650M GS | 1.1 |
GeForce 9700M GT | 1.1 |
GeForce 9650M GS | 1.1 |
GeForce 9600M GT | 1.1 |
GeForce 9600M GS | 1.1 |
GeForce 9500M GS | 1.1 |
GeForce 8700M GT | 1.1 |
GeForce 8600M GT | 1.1 |
GeForce 8600M GS | 1.1 |
GeForce 9500M G | 1.1 |
GeForce 9300M G | 1.1 |
GeForce 8400M GS | 1.1 |
GeForce G210M | 1.1 |
GeForce G110M | 1.1 |
GeForce 9300M GS | 1.1 |
GeForce 9200M GS | 1.1 |
GeForce 9100M G | 1.1 |
GeForce 8400M GT | 1.1 |
GeForce G105M | 1.1 |
Tegra Mobile & Embedded Processors
GPU | Compute Capability |
---|---|
Tegra K1 | 3.2 |
Jetson TK1 | 3.2 |
Notes
(*) OEM-only products
Frequently Asked Questions
Geforce 8500 Gt
:On Windows computers:
- Right-click on desktop
- If you see 'NVIDIA Control Panel' or 'NVIDIA Display' in the pop-up window, you have an NVIDIA GPU
- Click on 'NVIDIA Control Panel' or 'NVIDIA Display' in the pop-up window
- Look at 'Graphics Card Information'
- You will see the name of your NVIDIA GPU
On Apple computers:
- Click on 'Apple Menu'
- Click on 'About this Mac'
- Click on 'More Info'
- Select 'Graphics/Displays' under Contents list
Nvidia Geforce 8500 Gt Drivers
Geforce 8500 For Mac Catalina
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