Radeon 9600XTChipset Features

• Quad-Pipe architecture delivers real-time cinematic rendering and animation.
• SMARTSHADER™ 2.0 technology supports Microsoft® DirectX® 9 feature sets, enabling more
complex and cinematic-quality lighting effects
- 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 technology delivers the sharpest, clearest textures without sacrificing
frame rates
- 2x/4x/6x full scene anti-aliasing modes
- 2x/4x/8x/16x anisotropic filtering modes
• Supports HYPER Z™ III+
- 3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with early Z test
- Lossless Z-Buffer compression (up to 24:1)
- Fast Z-Buffer Clear
• Supports TRUFORM™ 2.0
- 2nd generation N-Patch higher order surface support
- Discrete and continuous tessellation levels per polygon
- Displacement mapping
• Supports VIDEOSHADER™
- Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video
- FULLSTREAM™ video de-blocking technology
- Noise removal filtering for captured video
• 128-bit full floating point precision enables billions of color variations to render the same
lighting and effects as Hollywood studios
• Full AGP 8X support doubles available bandwidth for the most engaging gameplay in its class
• Enjoy better performance and 3D imagery in multimedia, games and applications with
Microsoft® DirectX® 9 optimized architecture
• DirectPlay of the Microsoft® DirectX® 9 brings improved multiplayer access to groups
connecting over LANs and the Internet
• Supported by CATALYST™, the industry's most stable 3D acceleration software
• Also supporting the latest OpenGL® functionality and feature sets
• Optimized to run the most demanding 2D and 3D next-generation games and applications
without putting extra strain on the CPU
• FULLSTREAM™ removes blocky artifacts from streaming Internet video to deliver smoother
looking, higher quality online content
• VIDEO IMMERSION integrates features to provide unprecedented support for digital and high
definition video
• Enjoy long-term compatibility with the hottest Microsoft® DirectX® 9 gaming releases and
backwards-compatibility with your favorite titles
• MPEG-2 decoding with motion compensation, iDCT and color space conversion
• Adaptive de-interlacing and frame rate conversion
• Dual integrated display controllers
• Dual integrated 10-bit per channel 400MHz 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 abs
• 2D Display Modes: Resolutions, colors and maximum refresh rates(Hz) in 256, 65K or 16.7M
colors