Radeon AIW 8500 and AIW 9700

[silky62678]

How big of a difference is there in the Radeon AIW 8500 and AIW 9700 as far as visional goes, and proformance ?

 

[Sazar]

Originally posted by silky62678
How big of a difference is there in the Radeon AIW 8500 and AIW 9700 as far as visional goes, and proformance ?

quite large in terms of performance...

in gaming performance the 9700 AIW performs as well as the 9700pro video card... quite well

the AIW features are beefed up in the 9700 version... namely picture in picture and also better encoding...

here is the spec sheet from ati on both products

AIW 9700 = http://mirror.ati.com/products/pc/aiw9700pro/index.html

AIW 8500 = http://mirror.ati.com/products/pc/aiwradeon8500dv/index.html

btw... the new encoding tech used on the 9700 actually gives better image quality for recorded products as well as cleaning up the image a little (compared to 8500DV's) when displaying tv output on monitors