ATI Radeon 9000 & 9700 Preview - PAGE 1

Specifications

System Requirements

§        Intel Pentium 4/III/II/Celeron, AMD K6/Duron/Athlon/Athlon XP or compatible with AGP 2X (3.3v), 4X (1.5V), 8X (0.8v) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (2X/4X/8X).

§        128MB of system memory

§        Installation software requires CD-ROM drive

§        DVD playback requires DVD drive

Graphics Technology

§        RADEON 9700 Visual Processing Unit (VPU)

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 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

§        256-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 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

§        2^nd 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 & HDCP 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 warranty