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- Graphics Technology
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- Triplex REDai RADEON™
9600 Pro Visual Processing Unit (420MHz)
- Memory Configuration
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- 128MB of double data rate SDRAM
(680MHz)
- Operating Systems Support
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- Windows® XP
- Windows® 2000
- Windows® Me
- Display Support
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- VGA connector for analog CRT
- S-video connector for TV / VCR 1
- DVI-I connector for digital flat
panel 2
- Independent resolutions and
refresh rates for any two connected displays
- Features
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- 4 parallel rendering pipelines
- 2 parallel geometry engines
- 128-bit DDR memory interface
- AGP 8X support
- SMARTSHADER™
2.0
- Programmable pixel and
vertex shaders
- 16 textures per pass
- Pixel shaders up to 160
instructions with 128-bit floating point precision
- Vertex shaders up to 1024
instructions with flow control
- Multiple render target
support
- Shadow volume rendering
acceleration
- High precision 10-bit per
channel frame buffer support
- Supports DirectX® 9.0 and
the latest version of OpenGL®
- SMOOTHVISION™
2.1
- 2x/4x/6x full scene anti-aliasing
modes
- Adaptive algorithm with
programmable sample patterns
- 2x/4x/8x/16x anisotropic
filtering modes
- Adaptive algorithm with
bi-linear (performance) and tri-linear (quality) options
- HYPER
Z™ III+
- Lossless Z-Buffer
compression (up to 24:1)
- Fast Z-Buffer Clear
- TRUFORM™
2.0
- 2nd generation N-Patch
higher order surface support
- Discrete and continuous
tessellation levels per polygon
- Displacement mapping
- VIDEOSHADER™
- Seamless integration of
pixel shaders with video
- FULLSTREAM™
video de-blocking technology
- Noise removal filtering for
captured video
- MPEG-2 decoding with motion
compensation, iDCT and color space conversion
- All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
- YPrPb component output*
- Adaptive de-interlacing and
frame rate conversion
- Dual integrated display
controllers
- Dual integrated 10-bit per
channel 400 MHz DACs
- Integrated 165 MHz TMDS
transmitter (DVI 1.0 compliant)
- Integrated TV Output support up
to 1024x768 resolution
- Optimized for Pentium® 4 SSE2
and AMD Athlon™ 3Dnow!
- PC 2002 compliant
Official specifications
are a bore, aren't they ?. DirectX9 compliance infers that you'll be
able to impress all your friends with wonderful-looking demos. This is
essentially a steroid-pumped 9600 Pro, faster on both the core and
memory than a regular card. The core's 20MHz increase is a token gesture
for the most part, as we've seen a number of 9600 Pros hit 500MHz with
stock cooling and voltage. The substantial 80MHz memory increase
afforded by the 2.8ns Samsung memory, however, is a definite plus, and
it takes the card's theoretical memory bandwidth to an impressive ~
10.9GB/s, up from 9.6GB/s on the standard 9600 Pro. 
Most
of the money appears to have been spent on the card. The bundle is a
little spartan by comparison. A 6-foot S-Video cable, DVI-to-VGA
converter, a multi-language instruction manual and a driver CD
containing the Catalyst 3.2 drivers, DX9 and Acrobat 5.0 (spelt as
Acrobar on the CD, incidentally) complete the package. A few games would
have been appreciated.
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