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· Powered by the AGP 8x RADEON 9500 Visual Processing Unit (VPU).
· Complete DirectX 9.0 support for precedented realism and sophisticated visual effects.
· SMOOTHVISION 2.0 technology provides new levels of image quality with advanced full-scene anti-aliasing (FSAA) and anisotropic filtering.
· Revolutionary new video features including VIDEOSHADER and FULLSTREAM technologies.
· 128-bit memory interface of the RADEON 9500 utilizes the latest HYPER Z™ III bandwidth-conserving technology and provides end users with faster graphics performance.
· Supports 64MB of high speed double data rate (DDR) memory @550Mhz clock speed.
· Compliant to the AGP 3.0 specification by Intel Corporation supports the corresponding technology, AGP 8X, doubles the peak bandwidth capability of the AGP bus to 2.1GB/s, while retaining compatibility with the previous-generation AGP 4X technology.
· Featuring ATI -Industry-leading software suite for the best enhancement and accelerate the ultimate visual experience.
· First 8-pixel pipeline architecture provides top 3D performance for both Direct3D and OpenGL games and applications.
· Display configuration supports CRT, DVI-I & TV-Out (PAL/NTSC).
· Multi-display configuration support with ATI HYDRAVISION software.
· Industry-leading hardware DVD video playback with software DVD player support.

· Supports 3D resolutions (32-bit color) up to 2048x1536.
· Radeon 9500 ATI SMARTSHADER 2.0 technology, supports Microsoft DirectX 9.0 and the latest OpenGL functionality allowing gamers to experience complex, movie-quality effects in next-generation 3D games and applications.

· Four parallel rendering pipelines.

· Four parallel geometry engines.

· AGP 8x technology 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.

· ATI latest HYPER Z III support.

· 3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with early Z test.

· 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 for Internet Video.

· 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 (PAL/NTSC)

· Optimized for Pentium 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon 3Dnow!

· PC 2002 compliant.