Specifications

System Requirements

• Radeon™ 9500 PRO requires connection to your PC's internal power supply for operation. A 300-Watt power supply or greater is recommended to ensure normal system operation where a number of other internal devices are installed.
• Intel® Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron™, AMD® K6/Duron™/Athlon®/Athlon® XP or compatible with AGP 8X/4X/2X slot
• 128MB of system memory
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
• DVD playback requires DVD drive

Graphics controller

• Radeon™ 9500 PRO Visual Processing Unit (GPU)
• 275 MHz engine clock

Memory configuration

• 128MB of double data rate SDRAM
• 540 MHz memory speed

Operating system support

• Windows® XP
• Windows® 2000
• Windows® Me

Display support

• VGA connector for analog CRT
• S-video or composite connector for TV/VCR
• DVI-I connector for digital CRT or flat panel
• Independent resolutions and refresh rates for any two connected displays

Features

• Eight parallel rendering pipelines
• Four parallel geometry engines
• 128-bit DDR memory interface
• AGP 8X support
• SmartShader™ 2.0
  • Programmable pixel and vertex shaders
  • 16 textures per pass
  • Pixel shaders up to 160 instructions with 128-bit floating point precision
  • Vertex shaders up to 1024 instructions with flow control
  • Multiple render target support
  • Shadow volume rendering acceleration
  • High precision 10-bit per channel frame buffer support
  • Supports Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 and the latest version of OpenGL®
• SmoothVision™ 2.0
  • 2x/4x/6x full scene anti-aliasing modes
  • Adaptive algorithm with programmable sample patterns
  • 2x/4x/8x/16x anisotropic filtering modes
  • Adaptive algorithm with bi-linear (performance) and tri-linear (quality) options
    
• HYPER Z™ III
  • 3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with early Z test
  • Lossless Z-Buffer compression (up to 24:1)
  • Fast Z-Buffer Clear
    
• TruForm™ 2.0
  • 2nd generation N-Patch higher order surface support
  • Discrete and continuous tessellation levels per polygon
  • Displacement mapping
    
• VideoShader™
  • Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video
  • FullStream™video de-blocking technology
  • Noise removal filtering for captured video
    
• MPEG-2 decoding with motion compensation, iDCT and color space conversion
• All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
• YPrPb component output
• Adaptive de-interlacing and frame rate conversion
• Dual integrated display controllers
• Dual integrated 10-bit per channel 400 MHz DACs
• Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI 1.0 compliant)
• Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution
• Optimized for Pentium® 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon™ 3Dnow!
• PC 2002 compliant

Warranty

• 3-year limited

2D display modes:
Resolutions, colors and maximum refresh rates (Hz) in 256, 65K or 16.7M colors:

Monitor Resolution	Hz
640x480	120
800x600	120
1024x768	120
1152x864	120
1280x1024	120
1600x1200	85
1920x1080	75
1920x1200	75
1920x1440	75
2048x1536	60

Maximum 3D resolutions:

Colors	Monitor Resolution
65K colors	2048x1536
16.7M colors	2048x1536

Resolutions and refresh rates are subject to change. Not all monitors support all modes and refresh rates.