The first time we saw the 1 GB badge on the Palit 8500GT,we dida double take to make sure this is a lot of memory to waste on a core that has 16 stream processors . we figure half this memory will just be stting around doing noting after all. we've seen most 8600GTs with 256 MB of memory working fine with huge textures.

The card does with a minimal cooling setup¬circular heatsink with an embedded fan-but then the 8500GT is a very cool customer. Benchmarking the Palit 8500GT showed us that our initial reactions were right. The Core doesn't really have enough horsepower to keep all that memory busy. However, at higher resolutions we were able to get a couple of extra frames compared to other 8500GT cards.

Rs 5,250 doesn't seem much for a 1 GB card, but an 8600GT will outperform the Palit 8500GT Super+ by around 200 percent and
cost just Rs 1,500 more. We wouldn't recommend this card to a gamer, and neither to someone looking for an HTPc. Look for 256 MB of RAM-its all you'll need in this category.

specifications
GF 8500GT chipset; 16 Shader Units; (ore: 450 MHz; Memory: 800 MHz; 1 GB video memory.

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