ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 Series - GPU Specifications
ATI Radeon™ HD 2600
Feature Summary
- 390 million transistors on 65nm fabrication process
- 128-bit DDR2/GDDR3/GDDR4
memory interface
- Ring Bus Memory Controller
- Fully distributed design with 256-bit internal
ring bus for memory reads and writes
- Unified Superscalar Shader
Architecture
- 120 stream processing units
- Dynamic load balancing and resource
allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders
- Common
instruction set and texture unit access supported for all
types of shaders
- Dedicated branch execution units and
texture address processors
- 128-bit floating point precision
for all operations
- Command processor for reduced CPU
overhead
- Shader instruction and
constant caches
- Up to 40 texture fetches per
clock cycle
- Up to 128 textures
per pixel
- Fully associative multi-level
texture cache design
- DXTC
and 3Dc+ texture compression
- High resolution texture
support (up to 8192 x 8192)
- Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs
- Double-sided
hierarchical Z/stencil buffer
- Early Z test, Re-Z,
Z Range optimization,
and Fast Z Clear
- Lossless Z & stencil compression (up
to 128:1)
- Lossless
color compression (up to 8:1)
- 8 render targets
(MRTs) with anti-aliasing
support
- Physics processing support
- Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10.0
- Shader Model 4.0
- Geometry Shaders
- Stream Output
- Integer and Bitwise Operations
- Alpha to Coverage
- Constant Buffers
- State Objects
- Texture Arrays
- Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
- High performance vertex cache
- Programmable tessellation unit
- Accelerated geometry shader path
for geometry amplification
- Memory read/write cache for improved
stream output performance
- Anti-aliasing features
- Multi-sample anti-aliasing (up to 8 samples
per pixel)
- Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA)
for improved quality
- Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
- Temporal anti-aliasing
- Gamma correct
- Super AA (CrossFire configurations only)
- All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR
rendering
- Texture filtering
features
- 2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering
modes (up
to 128 taps per pixel)
- 128-bit floating
point HDR texture filtering
- Bicubic
filtering
- sRGB
filtering
(gamma/degamma)
- Percentage
Closer
Filtering
(PCF)
- Depth & stencil
texture (DST) format support
- Shared
exponent
HDR
(RGBE
9:9:9:5)
texture
format
support
- CrossFire™ Multi-GPU
Technology
- Scale up rendering performance and image
quality
with 2 or more GPUs
- Integrated compositing
engine
- High
performance
dual
channel
interconnect
- ATI Avivo™ HD
Video and Display Platform
- Dedicated unified video decoder (UVD) for H.264/AVC
and VC-1 video formats
- High definition (HD) playback of both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats
- Hardware MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4/DivX video decode
acceleration
- Motion compensation and iDCT (inverse discrete cosine
transform)
- Avivo Video Post Processor
- Color space conversion
- Chroma subsampling format conversion
- Horizontal and
vertical scaling
- Gamma correction
- High Quality Video Post Processing
- Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing
- De-blocking
and noise reduction filtering
- Detail enhancement
- Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down
correction)
- Bad edit correction
- Two independent display
controllers
- Drive two displays simultaneously with independent
resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video
overlays
for each
display
- Full
30-bit
display
processing
- Programmable
piecewise
linear
gamma
correction,
color
correction,
and
color
space
conversion
- Spatial/temporal
dithering
provides
30-bit
color
quality
on
24-bit
and
18-bit
displays
- High
quality
pre-
and
post-scaling
engines,
with
underscan
support
for
all
display
outputs
- Content-adaptive
de-flicker
filtering
for
interlaced
displays
- Fast,
glitch-free
mode
switching
- Hardware
cursor
- Two
integrated
dual-link
DVI
display
outputs
- Each
supports
18-,
24-,
and
30-bit
digital
displays
at
all
resolutions
up
to
1920x1200
(single-link
DVI)
or
2560x1600
(dual-link
DVI)1
- Each
includes
a
dual-link
HDCP
encoder
with
on-chip
key
storage
for
high
resolution
playback
of
protected
content2
- Two
integrated
400
MHz
30-bit
RAMDACs
- Each
supports
analog
displays
connected
by
VGA
at
all
resolutions
up
to
2048x15361
- HDMI
output
support
- Supports
all
display
resolutions
up
to
1920x10801
- Integrated HD audio controller with multi-channel (5.1) AC3
support, enabling a plug-and-play cable-less audio solution
- Integrated
AMD
Xilleon™ HDTV
encoder
- Provides
high
quality
analog
TV
output
(component/S-video/composite)
- Supports
SDTV
and
HDTV
resolutions
- Underscan
and
overscan
compensation
- MPEG-2,
MPEG-4,
DivX,
WMV9,
VC-1,
and
H.264/AVC
encoding
and
transcoding
- Seamless
integration
of
pixel
shaders
with
video
in
real
time
- VGA
mode
support
on
all
display
outputs
- PCI Express x16 bus interface
- OpenGL 2.0 support
1 Some custom resolutions require user configuration
2 HDCP support for playback of protected content requires connection
to a HDCP capable display
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