Specifications

System Requirements

• Intel® Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron™, AMD® K6/Duron™/Athlon®/Athlon XP® or compatible with AGP 4X (1.5V), 8X (0.8v) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (4X/8X).
• 128MB of system memory
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
• DVD playback requires DVD drive

Graphics Technology

• Radeon™ 9600 XT, Radeon™ 9600 PRO, Radeon™ 9600 or Radeon™ 9600 SE Visual Processing Unit (GPU)

Memory Configuration

• 128MB of double data rate SDRAM

Operating Systems Support

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

Display Support

• VGA connector for analog CRT
• S-video connector for TV / VCR ¹
• DVI-I connector for digital flat panel ²
• Independent resolutions and refresh rates for any two connected displays

1 Optional S-Video to Composite Adapter available separately from ATI Online Store.
2 Optional DVI to VGA adapter allows connection to a second VGA monitor.
  Available separately from your retailer or the ATI Online Store.

Features

• 4 parallel rendering pipelines
• 2 parallel geometry engines
• 128-bit DDR memory interface (64-bit on Radeon™ 9600 SE)
• 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 DirectX® 9.0 and the latest version of OpenGL®
• SmoothVision™ 2.1
• 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+
• 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

*with optional HDTV adapter available from ATI Online Store

Warranty

• 3-year limited warranty

Mode Tables

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* 16:9	75
1920x1200	75
1920x1440	75
2048x1536	60

*16:9 aspect ratio monitors are supported on 1920x1080 and 848x480 on Windows® XP, Windows® 2000 and Windows® ME. The complete list of resolutions depends on the driver version and operating system. NOTE: resolutions are limited by the performance of the attached monitor.

MAXIMUM 3D RESOLUTIONS
  (with 128MB Frame Buffer)

65K colors	2048x1536
16.7M colors	2048x1536