Specifications

System Requirements

• Intel® Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron™, AMD® K6/Duron™/Athlon®/Athlon XP® or compatible with AGP 2X (3.3v), 4X (1.5V), 8X (0.8v) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (2X/4X/8X).
• 64MB of system memory
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
• DVD playback requires DVD drive

Graphics Technology

• Radeon™ 9000 SERIES graphics technology operating at 275MHz for Radeon™ 9000 PRO and 250MHz for Radeon™ 9000

Memory Configuration

• 64MB or 128MB of DDR memory operating at 550 MHz

Operating Systems Support

• Windows® XP
• Windows® 2000
• Windows® Me
• Windows® 98/98SE

Monitor Support

• CRT monitor: 15-pin VGA connector
• TV and VCR
  • 64MB version: composite or s-video connector
  • 128MB version: composite connector
• DVI-I (flat panel display) connector on PRO version only

Display Support

• Register compatible with VGA
• Supports VESA PnP compatible displays
• BIOS compatible with VESA for super VGA
• DDC1/2b/2b+ monitor support
• VESA Display Power
• Management Support
• Separate horizontal and vertical synchronization at TTL levels

Features

Charisma Engine™ II

• Four parallel rendering pipelines process up to 1.1 billion pixels per second
• High performance 2nd generation hardware transform & lighting engine
• 43 million triangles per second peak throughput
• Advanced vertex shader support for the latest programmable effects

SmartShader™ technology

• Full support for DirectX ® 8.1 programmable pixel and vertex shaders in hardware
• 1.4 pixel shaders support up to 22 instructions and up to 6 textures per rendering pass
• 1.1 vertex shaders support vertex programs up to 128 instructions
• Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL ® via extensions
• Programmable shaders provide enhanced 3D effects in over 100 existing and upcoming game titles

SmoothVision™

• Image quality enhancement features for Direct3D™ and OpenGL ® applications
• Programmable full-scene anti-aliasing supports 2 to 6 samples with user selectable performance and quality modes
• Advanced anisotropic filtering supports 2 to 16 samples for high quality texture rendering with minimal performance impact

HYPERZ™ II

• Lossless Z-Buffer Compression and Fast Z-Buffer Clear reduce memory bandwidth by up to 25%

VIDEO FEATURES

• FullStream™ Hardware accelerated de-blocking of Internet video streams
• Video Immersion™ II delivers industry-leading DVD playback
• Integrated MPEG-2 decode including iDCT and motion compensation for top quality DVD with lowest CPU usage
• Unique Adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing feature combines the best elements of the "bob" and "add-field" (weave) techniques
• YUV to RGB color space conversion
• Back-end scaler delivers top quality playback
• 4-tap horizontal and vertical filtering
• Upscaling and downscaling
• Filtered display of images up to 1920 pixels wide
• Hardware mirroring 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 to drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates
• Hydravision™ software provides complete control over multi-display configurations with a user-friendly interface
• 400MHz Dual integrated DACs with 10-bit per channel palette
• Integrated DVI-compliant 165MHz TMDS transmitter
• Integrated TV-Out support up to 1024x768 resolution

GENERAL FEATURES

• Comprehensive 2X and 4X AGP support. Compatible with AGP 8X universal motherboards.
• Fully compliant with PC 2002 requirements
• Optimized for Pentium ® 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon™ 3Dnow! processor instructions
• Highly optimized 128-bit 2D engine with support for new Windows ® XP GDI extensions

Warranty

• 3-year limited warranty

Mode Tables
2D DISPLAY MODES
Resolutions, colors and maximum refresh rates (Hz) in 256, 65K or 16.7M colors

Monitor Resolution	Hz
640x480	200
800x600	200
1024x768	200
1152x864	200
1280x1024	160
1600x1200	120
1920x1080* 16:9	120
1920x1200	100
1920x1440	90
2048x1536	85

*16:9 aspect ratio monitors are supported on 1920x1080 and 848x480 on Windows® XP, Windows® 2000 and Windows® ME. The complete list of resolutions depends on the driver version and operating system. NOTE: that resolutions are limited by the performance of the attached monitor.

MAXIMUM 3D RESOLUTIONS

65K colors	2048x1536
16.7M colors	2048x1536