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

*Specifications are subject to change without notice and may vary depending upon product sku*