Specifications

3D Graphics Features

• Four parallel rendering pipelines process up to 1.6 billion pixels per second pixel fill rate
• Two parallel geometry engines process up to 200 million vertices per second transform rate
• 8.6 GB/Sec memory bandwidth
• High precision 10-bit per channel frame buffer support

SmartShader™ 2.0

• Full support for OpenGL® 2.0 programmable pixel and vertex shaders in hardware
• 2.0 Pixel Shaders support up to 16 textures per rendering pass
• 2.0 Vertex Shaders support vertex programs up to 1024 instructions with flow control
• New 128-bit per pixel floating point color formats
• Shadow volume rendering acceleration

SmoothVision™ 2.1

• State-of-the-art full-scene anti-aliasing
• New technology processes up to 15.6 billion anti-aliased samples per second for unprecedented performance
• Supports 2x, 4x, and 6x modes with programmable sample patterns
• Advanced anisotropic filtering
  • Supports up to 16 bilinear samples (in performance mode) or trilinear samples (in quality mode) per pixel
  • Bandwidth-saving algorithm enables this feature with minimal performance cost

HypeZ™ III

• Hierarchical Z-Buffer and Early Z Test reduce overdraw by detecting and discarding hidden pixels
• Lossless Z-Buffer Compression and Fast Z-Buffer Clear reduce memory bandwidth consumption by over 50%

Video Features

• DVD and QuickTime™ Acceleration
• Seamless integration of programmable pixel shaders with video data
• Integrated MPEG-2 decode
• Hardware accelerated iDCT, motion compensation, and color space conversion
• Top quality DVD and DTV/HDTV decode with low CPU overhead

Display Features

• Dual Digital display controllers
• Drive any combination of 2 Digital or analog displays with independent resolutions and refresh rates
• Dual integrated 10-bit per channel palette DACs operating at up to 400MHz
• Dual 165MHz TMDS transmitters (DVI 1.0 compliant)
• DVI-I connectors

General Features

• High performance quad-channel DDR memory interface with 256MB total memory
• Optimized for Mac® OS X and Power PC ALTIVEC processor instructions

Advance Dual Display Support

• Drive two Digital or Analog displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates
• VersaVision™ provides hardware accelerated display rotation and scaling
• Dual-Link DVI for high-resolution digital displays
• Support for HDTV output over DVI

System Requirements

• Power Mac® G4, G5 from Apple or PC
• AGP* graphics slot available on the motherboard
• 300-Watt power supply or greater recommended

* Compatible with AGP 8X and 4X systems.

System Software Support

• Mac® OS X 10.3.6 and later
• Windows® XP (Home or Pro)
• Windows® 2000* with Service Pack 1 (or later).

*Extended desktop mode is not supported with Windows 2000. Windows users requiring dual independent displays should use Windows XP to enable this feature.

Graphics Processor

• Radeon™ 9600 PRO Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

Memory Configuration

• 256 MB of DDR memory

Warranty

• 3-year limited warranty

Display Support

• Dual-link DVI
• Dual DVI ports for digital flat panel*
• CRT monitor**
• TV out ***
• Built-in VersaVision(TM) for portrait displays

* ADC support with optional DVI to ADC adapter
** With DVI to VGA adapter (one included)
*** TV Out support with optional DVI

Analog Monitor Display Modes
Resolutions and maximum refresh rates (Hz) in thousands and millions of color settings

Display Resolution	Maximum Refresh Rate (Hz)
640x480	200
720x480	200
800x600	200
1024x768	200
1152x864	200
1152x870	75
1280x960	200
1280x1024	200
1600x1024	150
1600x1200	150
1792x1344	75
1856x1392	75
1920x1080	150
1920x1200*	120
1920x1440	120
2048x1152	120
2048x11280	120
2048x1536	100

Actual available display modes are dependent upon monitor selection.
*1920 x 1200 flat panel resolution available through use of reduced blanking interval.

Digital Flat Panel Maximum Resolution

Connection type	Resolution	Example Product
Single-link (one DVI or ADC)	1680x1050	Apple 20” Cinema
Single-link (one DVI or ADC)	1920x1200	Apple 23” Cinema HD
Dual-link (one DVI)	2560x1600	Apple 30” Cinema HD

Note: resolutions are limited by the performance of the attached monitor