System Requirements

• Radeon 9700 PRO requires connection to your PC's internal power supply for operation. A 300 watt power supply or greater is recommended to ensure normal system operation where a number of other internal devices are installed.
• Intel® Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron, AMD® K6/Duron/Athlon®/Athlon XP® or compatible with AGP 2X (3.3v), 4X (1.5V), 8X (0.8v) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (2X/4X/8X).
• 128MB of system memory
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
• DVD playback requires DVD drive

Graphics Technology

• RADEON 9700 PRO Visual Processing Unit (VPU)

Memory Configuration

• 128MB of double data rate SDRAM

Operating Systems Support

• Windows® XP
• Windows® 2000
• Windows® Me

Display Support

• VGA connector for analog CRT
• S-video or composite connector for TV / VCR
• DVI-I connector for digital CRT or flat panel
• Independent resolutions and refresh rates for any two connected displays

Features

• Eight parallel rendering pipelines
• Four parallel geometry engines
• 256-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 2.0
  • 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
  • 3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with early Z test
  • Lossless Z-Buffer compression (up to 24:1)
  • Fast Z-Buffer Clear
• TRUFORM 2.0
  • 2^nd 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 & HDCP compliant)
• Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution
• Optimized for Pentium® 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon 3Dnow!
• PC 2002 compliant

Warranty

• 3-year limited warranty

Mode Tables

System Requirements

• Intel® Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron, AMD® K6/Duron/Athlon®/Athlon XP® or compatible with AGP 2X (3.3v), 4X (1.5V), 8X (0.8v) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (2X/4X/8X).
• 64MB of system memory
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
• DVD playback requires DVD drive

Graphics Technology

• RADEON 9000 PRO graphics technology operating at 275MHz

Memory Configuration

• 64MB of DDR memory operating at 550 MHz

Operating Systems Support

• Windows® XP
• Windows® 2000
• Windows® Me

Monitor Support

• CRT monitor: 15-pin VGA connector
• TV and VCR: s-video or composite connector
• DVI-I (flat panel display) connector

Display Support

• Register compatible with VGA
• Supports VESA PnP compatible displays
• BIOS compatible with VESA for super VGA
• DDC1/2b/2b+ monitor support
• VESA Display Power
• Management Support
• Separate horizontal and vertical synchronization at TTL levels

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 3D effects in over 100 existing and upcoming game titles

SMOOTHVISION

• 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

HYPERZ II

• Lossless Z-Buffer Compression and Fast Z-Buffer Clear reduce memory bandwidth by up to 50%

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
• 400MHz Dual integrated DACs with 10-bit per channel palette
• Integrated DVI-compliant 165MHz TMDS transmitter
• Integrated TV-Out support up to 1024x768 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 3Dnow! processor instructions
• Highly optimized 128-bit 2D engine with support for new Windows ® XP GDI extensions

Warranty

• 3-year limited warranty

System requirements

• Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron, AMD® K6/Athlon® or compatible with AGP 2X or AGP 2X/4X universal slot
• 64MB of system memory
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
• DVD playback requires DVD drive

Graphics controller

• RADEON 8500 graphics processing unit (GPU)

Memory configuration

• 64/128MB of double data rate memory

Operating systems support

• Windows® 98/98SE
• Windows® Me
• Windows® 2000
• Windows® XP

Monitor support

• CRT Monitor: 15-pin VGA connector
• TV and VCR: s-video or composite connector
• DVI-I (flat panel display) connector

Display support

• Register compatible with VGA
• BIOS compatible with VESA for super VGA
• DDC1/2b/2b+ monitor support
• VESA Display Power Management Support
• Separate horizontal and vertical synchronization at TTL levels

Features

• TRUFORM
• SMARTSHADER
• DirectX® 8.1 support
• OpenGL® 1.3
• SMOOTHVISION anti-aliasing
• HYPER Z II
• CHARISMA ENGINE II
• PIXEL TAPESTRY II
• VIDEO IMMERSION II
• High Performance Memory Support
• Dual Display Support
• Integrated Transformation, Clipping and Lighting
• Twin Cache Architecture
• SuperScalar Rendering
• Single-Pass Multi-texturing
• True Color Rendering
• Triangle Setup Engine
• Texture Cache
• Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering
• Line & Edge Anti-aliasing
• Full-Screen Anti-aliasing
• Texture Compositing
• Texture Decompression
• Specular Highlights
• Perspectively Correct Texture Mapping
• Mip-Mapping
• Z-buffering and Double-buffering
• Emboss, Dot Product 3 and Environment bump mapping
• Spherical, Dual-Paraboloid and Cubic environment mapping
• Fog effects, texture lighting, video textures, reflections, shadows, spotlights, LOD biasing and texture morphing

Warranty

• 3-year limited warranty