PNY Verto GeForce 8500GT 512MB Video Card

The PNY Verto GeForce 8500 GT 512MB PCI-E Graphics Card lets you play it and watch it in HD. This HDCP-capable graphics card features full support of DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 for games, plus the ultimate HD movie experience with HD-DVD and Blu-ray movie playback capability. It offers 512 MB of 128-bit DDR2 memory with a 12.8 GB-per-second memory bandwidth. It includes DVI+VGA+HDTV/S-Video outputs. NVIDIA unified architecture allocates processing power to geometry, vertex, physics, or pixel shading operations, delivering up to twice the gaming performance of prior generation GPUs. GigaThread Technology, with its massively multi-threaded architecture, supports thousands of independent, simultaneous threads, providing extreme processing efficiency in advanced, next generation shader programs. NVIDIA SLI technology delivers up to twice the performance of a single graphics card configuration for unequaled gaming experiences by allowing two cards to run in parallel. This must-have feature for performance PCI Express graphics dramatically scales performance on today\'s hottest games. PCI Express support is designed to run perfectly with the PCI Express bus architecture, which doubles the bandwidth of AGP 8X to deliver over 4 GB-per-second. in both upstream and downstream data transfers. Blazing fast dual 400 MHz RAMDACs support dual QXGA displays with ultra-high, ergonomic refresh rates--up to 2048x1536@85Hz, and dual-link DVI support lets you drive the industry\'s largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays up to 2560x1600. The GeForce 8500 GT was built and tested rigorously for Microsoft Vista. What\'s in the Box NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT graphics card, quick installation guide, CD-ROM (detailed installation guide PDF, NVIDIA Forceware drivers, DirectX 9.0c, NVIDIA GeForce demos, PNY and NVIDIA desktop wallpapers), DVI-to-VGA adapter, S-Video cable, and HDTV break-out pod. (Amazon)