Features

Premium 3D Performance

• Offering up to a 30% MHz boost over its predecessor
• Supports Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0
• Pixel and Vertex Shaders
• Quad rendering & dual vertex engines
• Full precision floating point with full performance
• 0.13 micron GPU featuring Low-K process technology
• Fastest 3D engine speed
• Low power operation
• Support for AGP 8X

SmartShader™ 2.0

• Provides comprehensive hardware accelerated support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0.
• Full supported by OpenGL® using custom extensions
• Up to 16 textures per pixel
• Enables advanced Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 effects such as multiple render targets, user clip planes and high dimension floating point textures

SmoothVision™ 2.1

• Multisampling with 6 unique samples per pixel and ATI’s patented gamma correction
• Eliminates “jaggies” on the edges of objects and other visual artifacts for smoother-looking images without compromising performance
• 16X Anisotropic filtering improves image quality by sharpening blurry textures to bring out finer detail

PowerPlay™ 4.0

• ATI’s fourth-generation PowerPlay™ power management technology provides users with the optimal balance between performance and power consumption
• Multiple power-saving settings offer increased control and flexibility
• POWER-ON-DEMAND – constantly monitors system activity, dynamically adjusting clocks and voltage based on user scenario
• LOW POWER LCD – enables lower LCD refresh rate for longer battery life
• ATI Overdrive™ – on-chip thermal sensor enables performance to scale up dependent on notebook thermal environment

Razor-Sharp Visual Quality

• Hydravision™ software which provides the most flexible and easy-to-use interface for multiple display settings
• Integrated dual-channel LVDS, with support for notebook LCD panels as up to QXGA resolutions (2048x1536)
• 165 MHz integrated TMDS transmitter, for support of DVI Digital Flat Panels at up to UXGA resolution (1600x1200)
• Integrated TV-Out Encoder
• Dual RAMDACs at speeds of 400MHz
• Integrated HDTV encoder, supporting component output (YPbPr) for both North American and Japanese D-link connectors

Accelerated Home & Business Multimedia

• Hardware acceleration for MPEG encoding and decoding, for DVD playback, personal video recorder and time-shifting applications
• Video Input Port for notebook TVtuner solutions
• FullStream™ - hardware accelerated video de-blocking for enhanced Internet streaming video quality
• Optimized support for wide-aspect LCD panels and HDTV output

Multiple Variants For Ultimate Design Flexibility
ATI Mobility Radeon™ 9700 series is ATI’s eight generation of mobile graphics with integrated on-chip memory delivering true flexibility for numerous mobile form factors, from full size to “thin-and-light”.

• Discrete
• On-chip 64MB DDR (128-bit)
• On-chip 128MB DDR (128-bit)

SmartShader Effects

• Control panel allows gamers to enable exciting pixel shader effects in Direct3D® or OpenGL® applications

VPU Recover

• • Automatically activated if the graphics processor hangs, triggering the driver to reset the GPU, avoiding system “crash”

FlexFit™: Enabling The Upgradable Notebook
Using ATI’s innovative FlexFit™ technology, notebook vendors can deliver the future with upgradeable notebook designs while ensuring time and cost savings for their customers.

• Save design costs: use one motherboard design for all market segments – high-end, mainstream, and value
• Faster time to market: deliver better performing systems to users more quickly
• One driver architecture and interface for all systems: ensures less qualification time and easier product migration with users

Performance, technologies and features listed above can vary with specific notebook implementations.
Please consult with Notebook vendor for a complete list of supported features.