GPU Specifications
- Technology Features
- 4 parallel pixel pipelines
- 2 programmable vertex shader pipelines
- 128-bit dual-channel DDR memory
interface
- AGP8x/4x
- SmartShader™ 2.0
-
Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and
pixel shaders in hardware
- DirectX® 9.0 Vertex Shaders
- Vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions
with flow control
- DirectX® 9.0 Pixel Shaders
- Up to 1,536 instructions and 16 textures
per rendering pass
- 32 temporary and constant registers
- 128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per
pixel floating point color formats
- Multiple Render Target (MRT)
support
- Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® via
extensions
- SmoothVision™ 2.1
- 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes
- Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma
correction, programmable sample patterns, and centroid sampling
- Lossless Color Compression (up to6:1)at all resolutions
- Temporal Anti-Aliasing
- 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes
- Up to 128-tap texture filtering
- Adaptive algorithm with bilinear (performance)
and trilinear (quality) options
- HYPER
Z™ III
- Hierarchical Z-Buffer with Early Z Test
- Lossless Z-Buffer Compression
(up to 48:1)
- Fast Z-Buffer Clear
- Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering
- VideoShader™
- Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
- FullStream™ video de-blocking technology for Real, DivX, and
WMV9 formats
- VideoSoap™ noise removal filtering
for captured video
- MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration
- DXVA Support
- Hardware Motion Compensation, iDCT, DCT and color space
conversion
- All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
- YPrPb component output for direct drive
of HDTV displays†
- Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame
Rate Conversion (temporal filtering)
- Additional Features
-
- Dual integrated display controllers
- Dual integrated 10 bit per channel
400 MHz DACs
- Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI 1.0 compliant / HDMI interoperable
and HDCP ready*)
- Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768
resolution
- Windows® Logo Program compliant
- ATI Catalyst™ Software
Suite
* AMD’s ATI Radeon™ X and Radeon™ 9550
series of GPUs are capable of processing HDCP signals ("HDCP ready"),
however not all ATI Radeon graphics cards are HDCP ready. Please check
the applicable ATI Radeon graphics card specification to determine
if a particular ATI Radeon graphics card is HDCP ready. Some third
parties manufacture graphics cards containing ATI Radeon GPUs -- you
can inquire of them which models, if any, are HDCP ready. In addition,
playing HDCP content requires additional HDCP ready components, including
but not limited to an HDCP ready monitor, disc drive, multimedia application
and computer operating system.
† With optional HDTV adapter available from ATI Online Store
Copyright 2004, ATI Technologies Inc. ATI, Radeon, HyperZ, SmartShader,
SmoothVision, FullStream and VideoShader are trademarks and/or registered
trademarks of ATI Technologies Inc. Direct X is a registered trademark of
Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other
company and/or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks
of their respective owners. Features, performance and specifications may
vary by operating environment and graphics boards and are subject to change
without notice. Printed in Canada.
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