User Guide

Introduction 1-5
 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
 Video Input supports up to 800x600 resolution
 Optimized for Pentium
®
4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon
™
3Dnow!
 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
 Operating Systems Support: Windows
®
XP/2000/Me
 System Requirements

Intel
®
Pentium
®
4, AMD
®
Athlon
®
or higher with AGP 8X (0.8v), 4X
(1.5V) bus
 128MB of system memory
 Installation software requires CD/DVD ROM drive
User’s Manual