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C.P.Technology Introduced ATI Based Graphics Cards

by Anna Filatova
01/03/2002 | 10:04 PM

As we have already told you before, C.P.Technology Company known for the graphics cards sold as PowerColor brand name products made up its mind to give up the decision to sell only NVIDIA based graphics solutions. If some time ago KYRO II chip failed to inspire them, then the new ATI solutions seem to have attracted attention of C.P.Tech guys, so that they couldn’t leave them aside. As a result, C.P.Technology has announced three new products recently based on RADEON 8500 and RADEON 7500 chips. Here they are:

RADEON 7500LE (Evil Knight). This graphic card is based on RADEON 7500 chip working at 200MHz core frequency and is equipped with 64MB SDR SDRAM with 5ns access time and 230MHz working frequency. The card is provided with a standard monitor Out, DVI- and TV-Out. As we have already pointed out, this solution doesn’t have any analogues from ATI and represents some intermediate stage between RADEON 7500 and RADEON 7200, as far as its performance goes.
RADEON 8500LE (Evil Master II). This graphics card is a complete analogy to RADEON 8500LE from ATI, which means that it is based on RADEON 8500 graphics core working at 240MHz. The card is equipped with 64MB DDR SDRAM working at 500MHz. The card goes with a full set of output ports: D-Sub, DVI and TV.
RADEON 8500 275MHz Pro (Evil Master II). This graphics card is similar to RADEON 8500 from ATI. The curious thing about it is the fact that it is C.P.Technology that appeared the first company in the world besides ATI itself to start shipping RADEON 8500 working at 275MHz core and memory frequencies. Like the regular ATI RADEON 8500, this solution features 64MB memory and is equipped with a D-Sub Out, DVI- and TV-Out.

C.P.Technology is also reported to be launching some more graphics cards based on ATI chips in the nearest future. However, only RADEON 8500 Ultra deserves most attention, of course. According to some official sources, this solution will be announced some time in Q1 2002. RADEON 8500 Ultra is said to be equipped with DDR SDRAM working at 600Mhz. As for the chip frequency, no info is available so far, but bearing in mind that it is typical of RADEON 8500 family to have synchronously working core and memory, we dare suppose that RADEON 8500 Ultra will please us with a 300MHz core.

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