Date: February 25th, 2004
Product was donated by: ATI Technologies
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PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS

System Requirements

o 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).
o 128MB of system memory
o Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
o DVD playback requires DVD drive

Graphics Technology


o RADEON™ 9600 XT, RADEON™ 9600 PRO, RADEON™ 9600 or RADEON™ 9600 SE Visual Processing Unit (VPU) Memory Configuration
o 128MB of double data rate SDRAM Operating Systems Support
o Windows® XP
o Windows® 2000
o Windows® Me Display Support
o VGA connector for analog CRT
o S-video connector for TV / VCR 1
o DVI-I connector for digital flat panel 2
o 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

o 4 parallel rendering pipelines
o 2 parallel geometry engines
o 128-bit DDR memory interface (64-bit on RADEON™ 9600 SE)
o AGP 8X support
o SMARTSHADER™ 2.0
o Programmable pixel and vertex shaders
o 16 textures per pass
o Pixel shaders up to 160 instructions with 128-bit floating point precision
o Vertex shaders up to 1024 instructions with flow control
o Multiple render target support
o Shadow volume rendering acceleration
o High precision 10-bit per channel frame buffer support
o Supports DirectX® 9.0 and the latest version of OpenGL®
o SMOOTHVISION™ 2.1
o 2x/4x/6x full scene anti-aliasing modes
Adaptive algorithm with programmable sample patterns
o 2x/4x/8x/16x anisotropic filtering modes
? Adaptive algorithm with bi-linear (performance) and tri-linear (quality) options
o HYPER Z™ III+
o Lossless Z-Buffer compression (up to 24:1)
o Fast Z-Buffer Clear
o TRUFORM™ 2.0
o 2nd generation N-Patch higher order surface support
o Discrete and continuous tessellation levels per polygon
o Displacement mapping
o VIDEOSHADER™
o Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video
o FULLSTREAM™ video de-blocking technology
o Noise removal filtering for captured video
o MPEG-2 decoding with motion compensation, iDCT and color space conversion
o All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
o YPrPb component output*
o Adaptive de-interlacing and frame rate conversion
o Dual integrated display controllers
o Dual integrated 10-bit per channel 400 MHz DACs
o Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI 1.0 compliant)
o Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution
o Optimized for Pentium® 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon™ 3Dnow!
o PC 2002 compliant *with optional HDTV adapter available from ATI Online Store

Warranty

o 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