Radeon 9700
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Bilux #27 Features
Eight parallel rendering pipelines
Four parallel geometry engines
256-bit DDR memory interface
AGP 8X support
SMARTSHADER™ 2.0
This technology allows users to experience complex, movie-quality effects in next-generation 3D games and applications:
Programmable pixel and vertex shaders
16 textures per pass
Pixel shaders up to 160 instructions with 128-bit floating point precision
Realistic lighting of any kind of surface
Varying properties of a material across a surface
Accurate modelling of objects with microstructure
Horizon mapping
Vertex shaders up to 1024 instructions with flow control
Procedural deformation
Fur rendering
Advanced keyframe interpolation
Shadow volume extrusion
Particle systems
Many light sources
Lens effects
Advanced matrix palette skinning
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 giving developers the freedom to create more complicated effects than ever before.
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™ 2.0
This technology provides new levels of image quality with advanced full-scene anti-aliasing (FSAA) and anisotropic filtering. That is, this technology enhances image quality by removing jagged edges and bringing out fine texture detail, without compromising performance. Floating-point color precision allows for a greater range of colors and brightness.
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
The third generation of ATI's innovative, bandwidth saving HYPERZ technology, HYPERZ III plays a pivotal role in allowing the RADEON 9700 to reach unprecedented levels of rendering performance. As well as making improvements to the three components of HYPERZ I & II ( Hierarchical Z, Z Compression, and Fast Z Clear), HYPERZ III adds a new component called Early Z Test.
3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with early Z test
Lossless Z-Buffer compression (up to 24:1)
Fast Z-Buffer Clear
TRUFORM™ 2.0
The latest incarnation of ATI's innovative higher order surface technology. It is designed to smooth out the curved surface of 3D characters, objects, and terrain by increasing the polygon count through a process called "tessellation". By taking advantage of the massive vertex processing power of the RADEON 9700, it delivers more natural looking 3D scenes without requiring any changes to existing artwork.
2nd generation N-Patch higher order surface support
Discrete and continuous tessellation levels per polygon
Displacement mapping
VIDEOSHADER™
RADEON™ 9700 VPU continues to provide industry-leading video playback with VIDEOSHADER™ technology: a seamless integration of pixel shaders with video. The RADEON™ 9700 VPU also offers FULLSTREAM™ video de-blocking technology that removes blocky artifacts (noise removal filtering) for captured video and provides sharper image quality.
Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video
FULLSTREAM™ video de-blocking technology (The latest advancement in video processing technology, is a hardware accelerated filtering method that improves the performance and visual quality of streaming video playback.)
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 & HDCP compliant)
Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution
Optimized for Pentium® 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon™ 3Dnow!
PC 2002 compliant