Review: ATI Radeon 9000 Pro All In Wonder

TECHNOLOGY

• RADEON™ 9000 PRO graphics technology operating at 275MHz

MEMORY CONFIGURATION

• 64MB of DDR memory operating at 550 MHz

GRAPHICS FEATURES

• 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
• 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 supported in OpenGL ® via extensions
• Programmable shaders provide enhanced 3D effects in over 100 existing and upcoming game titles
• 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
• 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
• THEATER™ 200 Video decoder and stereo audio processor
• S/PDIF output
• Dual 12-bit ADCs
• Adaptive Comb Filter
• Stereo TV tuner with 125 channels
• TV-ON-DEMAND™ timeshifting
• Radio frequency remote control
• Video capture and editing including VideoCD and DVD Authoring

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
• Comprehensive 2X and 4X AGP support. Compatible with AGP 8X universal motherboards.
• Highly optimized 128-bit 2D engine with support for new Windows ® XP GDI extensions