Features

Premium 3D Performance

• 8 parallel pixel pipelines
• 4 programmable vertex shader pipelines
• 0.13 micron low-k fabrication process
• 256-bit quad-channel memory interface
• AGP4X/8X support

SmartShader™ HD

• Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware
• Direct X 9.0 Extended Pixel Shaders
  • 2nd generation F-buffer technology accelerates multi-pass pixel shader programs with unlimited instructions
  • 32 temporary and constant registers
  • Facing register for two-sided lighting
  • 128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point color formats
  • Multiple Render Target (MRT) support
• Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® via extensions

SmoothVision™ HD

• 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes
  • Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns, and centroid sampling
  • Lossless Color Compression at all resolutions
  • Temporal Anti-Aliasing
• 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes
  • Up to 128-tap texture filtering
  • Adaptive algorithm with bilinear (performance) and trilinear (quality) options

VideoShader™ HD

• Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
• FullStream™ video de-blocking technology for Real, DivX, and WMV9 formats
• VideoSoap™ noise removal filtering for captured video
• MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration
  • DXVA Support
  • Hardware Motion Compensation, iDCT, DCT and color spaceconversion
• All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
• YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays
• Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion (temporal filtering)

3Dc™

• High quality 4:1 Normal Map Compression
• Works with any two-channel data format HyperZ™ HD
• 3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with Early Z Test
• Lossless Z-Buffer Compression (up to 48:1)
• Fast Z-Buffer Clear
• Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering
• Optimized for performance at high display resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions

Additional features

• Dual integrated display controllers
• Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400 MHz DACs
• Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter
• Integrated 230 MHz LVDS transmitter
• Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution
• Windows® Logo Program compliant