Experience A Multimedia Explosion!

Don't sacrifice performance for the convenience of an all in one solution. Combine your worlds of Gaming, TV and Video together into one gripping multimedia tool for all occasions, SAPPHIRE enthusiastically delivers the extreme in creative power, THE BEAST RADEON 9600 PRO! With features such as: TV-ON-DEMAND™, THRUVIEW™, VIDEOSOAP™, support for DirectX® 9.0 and OpenGL, the BEAST series encapsulates all that your demanding media oriented intellect desires out of your graphics card!

Powered by the RADEON™ 9600 PRO visual processing unit
Stereo TV tuner with 125 channels
VIVO (Video-in & Video-Out) Optional
128-bit floating-point color precision allows for a greater range of colors and brightness
Double Data Rate memory removes hardware performance bottleneck and provides end users with faster 3D graphics
First to fully support DirectX® 9.0 and the latest OpenGL® functionality
New SMARTSHADER™ 2.1 technology allows users to experience complex, movie-quality effects in next-generation 3D games and applications
 
 
THE BEAST All In Wonder SAPPHIRE 9600 PRO
 
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

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


Disclaimer:
Product specifications subject to change without notice. Product bundle varies by countries, check local dealers for details.
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  • Powered by the RADEON™ 9600 PRO visual processing unit
  • Unparalleled TV and DVD features: TV-ON-DEMAND™, Gemstar GUIDE Plus+™, mulTView™, VIDEOSOAP™, THRUVIEW™ and much more
  • Easily edit video into your own creations: Video CD and DVD Authoring
  • *Optional*Radio frequency wireless remote for your PC provides a hand held 30-foot user interface. Control your mouse and PC applications at the click of a button.
  • Stereo TV tuner with 125 channels
  • Intelligent Teletext on your PC
  • Zoom & pan - zoom in on the action on-screen and choose your own close-ups
  • 128MB DDR memory accelerates the latest 3D games
  • VIVO (Video-in & Video-Out) Optional
  • Supports the new AGP 8X standard, providing a high-speed link between the graphics board and the rest of the PC (2.0 GB/sec)
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