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ATI GRAPHICS CARD |
£79.99 |
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| Graphics Controller |
9200 |
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| Memory Interface |
128Mb DDR |
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| TV Output |
Yes |
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| Card Interface |
AGP x 8 |
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| Bundled Software |
NO |
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| Pixel pipes |
4 |
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| Clock speed |
400 mhz |
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| Per pixel shading |
Yes |
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| Fill rate |
Not Specified |
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| Anti-aliasing |
Not Specified |
Product Information
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 | | ATI Radeon 9200 delivers a dazzling visual experience optimized to compelling 3D gaming enviroments.
General Features
. Powered by the revolutionary RADEON 9200 GPU with AGP 8X bus implementation
. Features ATI's TRUFORM, SMARTSHADER, SMOOTHVISION, and HYPER Z II technologies
. 250MHz Core Clock, 400MHz DDR RAM clock delivering a 6.4GB memory bandwidth
. Optimized for Pentium 4 SSE2 and AMD Althon 3Dnow! Processor instructions
. Up to 256MB of powerful double data rate (DDR) memory
. Supports 3D resolutions (32-bit color) up to 2048x1536
. Support for DirectXR 8.1 and OpenGLR 1.3 features
. Latest 3D games support the advanced features of RADEON? 9200
. Industry-leading DVD video playback for best motion video quality
. Vivid TV output support and Digital Flat Panel (DVI) support
3D Graphics Feature
· Four parallel rendering pipelines process up to 1.2 billion pixels per second
· SMARTSHADER technology
o Full support for DirectX8.1 programmable pixel and vertex shaders in hardware
o 1.4 pixel shaders support up to 6 texture per rendering pass
o vertex shaders support vertex program up to 128 instructions
o Complete feature set also supported in openGL via extensions
o Programmable shaders provide enhanced 3D effects in over 100 existing and upcoming game titles
· SMOOTHVISION
o Image quality enhancement features for direct3D and OpenGL applications
o Programmable full-scene anti aliasing
· Support 2 to 6 samples
· Performance and quality modes
o Advanced anisotropic filtering
· Supports 2 to 16 samples
· Bandwidth-saving algorithm enables this feature with minimal performance cost
· CHARISMA ENGINE II
· High performance 2nd generation hardware transform & lighting enginer
· 40 million triangles per second peak throughput
· TRUFORM
o N-patch higher order surface support
o Smoothes out curved surfaces and improves lighting quality in 3D scenes
o Supported by dozens of existing and upcoming games
· HYPERZ II
o Hierachical Z-Buffer reduces overdraw by detecting and discarding hidden pixels
o Loss less Z-Buffer Compression and fast Z-Buffer Clear Reduce Memory Bandwidth by up to 50%
Video Features
. VIDEO IMMERSION II delivers industry-leading video playback
. FULLSTREAM Hardware accelerated de-lblacking of RealVideo video streams
. Integrated MPEG-2 decode including iDCT and motion compensation:
o All format DTV/HDTV decode
o Top quality DVD with lowest CPU usage
. YUV to RGB color space conversion
. Back-end scaler delivers top quality playback
o 4-tap horizontal and vertical filtering
o Upscaling and downscaling
o Filtered display of images up to 1920 pixels wide
. Unique per-pixel adaptive de-interlacing feature combines the best elements of the "bab" and "add-field" (weave) techniques
. Hardware mirrioring for flipping video images in video conferencing systems
. Supports 8-bit alpha blending and video keying for effective overlay of video and graphics
Display Features
. Dual integrated display controllers
o Driver two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates
o HYDRAVISION software provides complete control over multi-display configurations with a user-friendly interface
. Dual integrated 10-bit per channel palette DACs operating at up to 400MHz
. Integrated DVI-compliant 165MHz TMDS transmitter supports resolutions up to QXGA (2048X1536)
. Integrated TV-OUT support up to 1024-768 resolution
. YprPB output for direct drive of HDTV monitors
| System Requirements
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| | . Pentium 4/III/II/Celeron, AMD K6/Athlon or compatible with AGP 2X/ 4X/ 8X
universal slot
. 64MB of system memory
. Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
. DVD playback requires DVD drive
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