ATI Radeon 9000 64 MB AGP Graphics Card Review

Product description

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From the Manufacturer

Featuring a revolutionary Quad-pipe architecture and up to 128 MB of memory, RADEON 9000 SERIES provides best-of-class performance to accelerate all popular 3-D applications. Four parallel, highly optimized rendering pipelines, typically available only for the high-end gaming cards, significantly enhance performance and game-play responsiveness when compared to the standard 2-pipeline architectures found in most mid-range products. The RADEON 9000 PRO is available in 64 MB or 128 MB configurations with a 275 MHZ engine clock speed, and an 275 MHZ DDR memory clock speed. The RADEON 9000 is available in a 64 MB configuration, 250 MHZ engine clock speed, and an 200 MHZ DDR memory clock speed.

At-a-glance

• Best-of-class 3-D gaming with a Quad-pipe architecture
• Complex, realistic lighting effects with SMARTSHADER technology
• Sharper-looking 3-D graphics with SMOOTHVISION technology
• Advanced video features, including FULLSTREAM technology, for smoother video stream and sharper image quality
• Dual display support with HYDRAVISION
• Featuring CATALYST – The industry’s most stable 3-D acceleration software
• DX 8.1 Support

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 3-D effects in over 100 existing and upcoming game titles

SMOOTHVISION

• Image quality enhancement features for Direct3-D 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 percent

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
• 400 MHz Dual integrated DACs with 10-bit per channel palette
• Integrated DVI-compliant 165 MHz DS transmitter
• Integrated TV-Out support up to 1024 x 768 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 3-Dnow! processor instructions
• Highly optimized 128-bit 2-D engine with support for new Windows XP GDI extensions