Featuring a revolutionary Quad-pipe architecture and up to 128 MB of memory, RADEON 9000 SERIES provides best-of-class performance to accelerate all popular 3-D applications. Four parallel, highly optimized rendering pipelines, typically available only for the high-end gaming cards, significantly enhance performance and game-play responsiveness when compared to the standard 2-pipeline architectures found in most mid-range products. The RADEON 9000 PRO is available in 64 MB or 128 MB configurations with a 275 MHZ engine clock speed, and an 275 MHZ DDR memory clock speed. The RADEON 9000 is available in a 64 MB configuration, 250 MHZ engine clock speed, and an 200 MHZ DDR memory clock speed.
At-a-glance
Best-of-class 3-D gaming with a Quad-pipe architecture
Complex, realistic lighting effects with SMARTSHADER technology
Sharper-looking 3-D graphics with SMOOTHVISION technology
Advanced video features, including FULLSTREAM technology, for smoother video stream and sharper image quality
Dual display support with HYDRAVISION
Featuring CATALYST - The industry's most stable 3-D acceleration software
DX 8.1 Support
Features
CHARISMA ENGINE II
Four parallel rendering pipelines process up to 1.1 billion pixels per second
High performance 2nd generation hardware transform & lighting engine
43 million triangles per second peak throughput
Advanced vertex shader support for the latest programmable effects
SMARTSHADER technology
Full support for DirectX 8.1 programmable pixel and vertex shaders in hardware
1.4 pixel shaders support up to 22 instructions and up to 6 textures per rendering pass
1.1 vertex shaders support vertex programs up to 128 instructions
Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL via extensions
Programmable shaders provide enhanced 3-D effects in over 100 existing and upcoming game titles
SMOOTHVISION
Image quality enhancement features for Direct3-D and OpenGL applications
Programmable full-scene anti-aliasing supports 2 to 6 samples with user selectable performance and quality modes
Advanced anisotropic filtering supports 2 to 16 samples for high quality texture rendering with minimal performance impact
HYPERZ II
Lossless Z-Buffer Compression and Fast Z-Buffer Clear reduce memory bandwidth by up to 25 percent
VIDEO FEATURES
FULLSTREAM Hardware accelerated de-blocking of Internet video streams
VIDEO IMMERSION II delivers industry-leading DVD playback
Integrated MPEG-2 decode including iDCT and motion compensation for top quality DVD with lowest CPU usage
Unique Adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing feature combines the best elements of the "bob" and "add-field" (weave) techniques
YUV to RGB color space conversion
Back-end scaler delivers top quality playback
4-tap horizontal and vertical filtering
Upscaling and downscaling
Filtered display of images up to 1920 pixels wide
Hardware mirroring for flipping video images in video conferencing systems
Supports 8-bit alpha blending and video keying for effective overlay of video and graphics
DISPLAY FEATURES
Dual integrated display controllers to drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates
HYDRAVISION software provides complete control over multi-display configurations with a user-friendly interface
400 MHz Dual integrated DACs with 10-bit per channel palette
Integrated DVI-compliant 165 MHz DS transmitter
Integrated TV-Out support up to 1024 x 768 resolution
GENERAL FEATURES
Comprehensive 2X and 4X AGP support. Compatible with AGP 8X universal motherboards.
Fully compliant with PC 2002 requirements
Optimized for Pentium 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon 3-Dnow! processor instructions
Highly optimized 128-bit 2-D engine with support for new Windows XP GDI extensions
Product Features
64 MB of DDR memory accelerates latest 2-D/3-D games and applications
Four parallel, highly optimized rendering pipelines deliver fastest gaming performance in its class
Industry-leading video technology and software support
Supports DirectX 8.1 and enables more complex and realistic lighting effects
Compatible with Windows 98, 98SE, Me, 2000, and XP
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