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Features- Powered by the ATI RADEON™ graphics processing unit (GPU)
- 32MB of powerful double data rate (DDR) memory
- Featuring ATI's CHARISMA ENGINE™ and PIXEL TAPESTRYTM technologies
- The most robust and integrated Transformation, Clipping and Lighting (T&L)
Accelerates all of today's top 3D games
- Industry best DVD playback
- Supports 3D resolutions (32-bit color) up to 2048x1536
- AGP Universal bus (for AGP 2X/4X systems)
32MB of DDR Memory- RADEON™ comes powered by 32MB of DDR memory to power all of today's hottest 3D games.
- With DDR memory you get twice the memory bandwidth for the highest data transfer rates through the pipeline
- Delivers immersive, realistic 32-bit true color 3D graphics at the fastest possible framerates
Powered by ATI's RADEON™ GPU- RADEON™ graphics boards feature the leading-edge technology of the RADEONTM GPU
- The RADEON™ CHARISMA ENGINE™ supports full transformation, clipping and lighting (T&L) at 30 million/second processing capability for a 10-fold improvement in 3D details
- 3D game characters are brought to life with the CHARISMA ENGINE™ support for other cutting-edge character animation such as vertex skinning and key frame interpolation
PIXEL TAPESTRY™, the RADEON™ 3D rendering engine, powers up to an incredible 1.5 Gigatexels per second for unsurpassed graphics performance
Ultimate 3D Game Support- The most complete implementation of the DirectX® feature set
- RADEON™ supports more features of DirectX® 8.0 than any other graphics board on the market
- Instant superior 3D game support right out of the box with full acceleration for today's hottest 3D games
Industry Best DVD Playback- Process full-frame rate, full-screen DVD or MPEG-2 video.
- Hardware DVD saves the expense of buying a separate MPEG-2/DVD decoder card
- Integrated iDCT and motion compensation allows for DVD decoding with minimum CPU usage
- HDTV ready
System Requirements- Pentium® III/II/Celeron, AMD K6®/Athlon or compatible with AGP 2X or AGP 2X/4X universal slot
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
DVD playback requires DVD drive
Graphics Controller- ATI RADEON™ graphics processing unit (GPU)
Memory Configurations- 32MB of double data rate memory
Operating Systems Support- Windows® 98/98SE
- Windows® ME
- Windows® 2000
Monitor Support- CRT Monitor: 15 pin VGA connector
Display Support- Register compatible with VGA
- BIOS compatible with VESA for super VGA
- DDC1/2b/2b+ monitor support
- VESA Display Power Management Support
- Separate horiz & vert sync at TTL levels
3D Acceleration Features- CHARISMA ENGINE™
- PIXEL TAPESTRY™ architecture
- Integrated Transformation, Clipping and Lighting
- Twin Cache Architecture
- Texture Cache
- Superscalar Rendering
- Single-Pass Multi-texturing
- True Color Rendering
- Triangle Setup Engine
- Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering
- Line & Edge Anti-aliasing
- Full screen Anti-aliasing
- Texture Compositing
- Texture Decompression
- Specular Highlights
- Perspectively Correct Texture Mapping
- Mip-Mapping
- Z-buffering and Double-buffering
- Hierarchial Z-buffer
- Emboss, Dot Product 3 and Environment bump mapping
- Spherical, Dual-Paraboloid and Cubic environment mapping
- Fog effects, texture lighting, video textures, reflections, shadows, spotlights,
- LOD biasing and texture mapping
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