User Guide

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 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 and
HDCP ready)
 Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution
 SMARTSHADER
™
2.1
 Full support for Microsoft
®
DirectX
®
9.0 programmable vertex and pixel
shaders in hardware
 2.0 Vertex Shaders support vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with
flow control
 2.0 Pixel Shaders support up to 16 textures per rendering pass
 New F-buffer technology supports pixel shader programs with unlimited
instructions
 128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point color formats
 Multiple Render Target (MRT) support
 Shadow volume rendering acceleration
 Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL
®
via extensions
 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+

3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with early Z test
 Lossless Z-Buffer compression (up to 24:1)
 Fast Z-Buffer Clear
 Z cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering
 TRUFORM
™
2.0
 2nd generation N-Patch higher order surface support
 Discrete and continuous tessellation levels per polygon
 Displacement mapping
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