RADEON™ 9000 PRO MAC EDITION User’s Guide P/N: 137-40360-00 Copyright © 2002, ATI Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. ATI and all ATI product and product feature names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of ATI Technologies Inc. All other company and/or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Features, performance and specifications are subject to change without notice. Product may not be exactly as shown in the diagrams.
Disclaimer While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this document, ATI Technologies Inc.
Table of Contents Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 What You'll Need......................................................................................... 2 Related Documentation............................................................................... 3 Multimedia Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Viewing 3D Graphics...................................................................................
Introduction The RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION represents the next generation in 3D and video acceleration for your Power Macintosh computer. It includes 64MB of DDR memory for fast 32-bit true color 3D graphics. Flexible dual-display support for multiple combinations of CRT and Digital Flat Panel monitors. Your new graphics accelerator provides: • Flexible dual-display support enabling many combinations utilizing the ADC (Apple Display Connector), VGA (using a third party adapter), and DVI-I connectors.
What You'll Need The RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION runs with the following minimum system requirements: NOTE NOTE NOTE • Any Power Macintosh computer with an AGP expansion slot. • Mac OS 9.2.1 or higher or Mac OS X version 10.1.3 or higher. • OpenGL 1.2.2 (required for some 3D graphics). • Apple multi-frequency monitor, VGA-style monitor (see note below), DVI-I style digital flat panel or Apple ADC style digital flat panel. • QuickTime 5.0 (earlier versions are NOT supported) or higher.
Related Documentation The README file summarizes the latest product revisions. Click the README icon on the installation disk to open this file. Help is available in both Mac OS X and OS 9 by simply clicking on the button in the ATI Displays control panel or through the Apple Help Center. You can browse through the Help or search for a specific topic.
Multimedia Features Your RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION turns your Mac computer into a 3D and 2D graphics powerhouse. You can use your new graphics accelerator card to do the following: • Enjoy true-color 32-bit 2D or 3D graphics up to 2048x1536. • Watch full screen, full motion, TV-quality video using QuickTime playback acceleration. • Output your Mac’s display to digital flat panels.
Viewing 3D Graphics RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION’s 3D Acceleration features supports the following advanced 3D graphics capabilities: • OpenGL Support. • QuickDraw 3D RAVE Support. • Twin Cache Architecture. • Single Pass Multi-texturing. • Triangle Setup Engine. • Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering. • Line Anti-aliasing. • Specular Highlights. • Perspectively Correct Texture Mapping. • Mip-Mapping. • Z-buffering and Double-buffering.
HYPER Z™ II makes Z-buffer bandwidth usage more efficient by decreasing the amount of information sent to the frame buffer. CHARISMA ENGINE™ II is a transform and lighting technology which controls changing shapes and lighting while maintaining fast 3D game performance. PIXEL TAPESTRY™ II uses six independent texture units per rendering pipeline giving highly realistic and detailed 3D graphics. VIDEO IMMERSION™ II incorporates MPEG-2 decoding, adaptive de-interlacing, and frame rate conversion.
ATI Displays Control Panel The ATI Displays control panel provides access to the advanced features that RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION has to offer. To open the ATI Displays control panel using Mac OS X: 1 Click the Hard Disk icon. 2 Click Applications folder. 3 Click Utilities folder. 4 Click ATI Utilities folder. 5 Double-click ATI Displays. For detailed instructions on how to set up and use these features, please refer to ATI Help, which can be accessed through the ATI Displays control panel.
The Display Info dialog presents the current settings of your monitor. The Profile dialog presents information on the specific RADEON graphics card and video driver installed in your computer. Even if the ATI Displays cannot identify your ATI product it will still provide display configuration, driver version and other related information. A warning dialog will display if no ATI product is installed in your computer. The Support dialog provides an internet link to the ATI Technologies’ website.
3D Memory Monitor The 3D Memory Monitor, available in Mac OS 9 only, shows how available memory in the accelerator card is allocated when displaying 3D graphics. Using the 3D Memory Monitor When you open 3D graphics on your Mac OS computer, run the 3D Memory Monitor to see how your RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION has allocated 3D memory. To open the 3D Memory Monitor 1 Choose Control Panels from the Apple Menu, or choose ATI Displays from the ATI Config Menu and skip to step 3. 2 Select ATI Displays.
Display The Screen bar indicates the amount of graphics memory is allocated to the display’s resolution and color depth. The Desktop Pattern bar indicates the amount of memory used by your desktop pattern. To reduce the memory allocated to Display memory: • change the color depth from millions to thousands. • decrease your screen resolution. Textures The Texture bar indicates the number and size of texture maps loaded by 3D applications to add realism to 3D models and environments.
ATI Displays Preferences From the ATI Displays drop down menu in Mac OS X only, you can set the Preferences for the ATI Displays control panel. Here you can configure how the ATI Displays control panel starts and exits. ATI HELP ATI HELP is an additional source of information when you are using the ATI Displays control panel. To access the ATI HELP, click on the icon on the ATI Displays control panel. Select a topic from the main ATI HELP window to get detailed instructions for a specific task.
Using QuickTime Playback The RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION’s QuickTime playback acceleration allows you to stretch even the smallest movies to full screen size without compromising frame rate or image quality. RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION’s hardware scaler maintains the original quality of your QuickTime movie when scaling to a larger size – even full screen. When the monitor is set to display in grayscale (Mac OS 9 only), QuickTime movies are not accelerated, nor are they converted to color.
Using Digital Flat Panel (DVI-I) RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION’s DVI-I support feature allows you to output your computer’s display to your DVI-I digital flat panel, providing you with: • Crisper, clearer images. • A true flat screen. • Virtually no eye strain from prolonged viewing. Using RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION DVI-I Connector Your RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION includes support for DVI-I. You can use this feature to connect your RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION to a digital flat panel display.
DVI-I Connector DVI-I monitor port ADC monitor port 4 NOTE ADC Connector Turn on your DVI-I flat panel and your Mac. The DVI-I connector is hot swappable. You no longer need to shut down your computer before attaching a digital flat panel.
Specifications Video Mode Table The video mode table below lists the color depth capabilities for the supported resolutions on your RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION. Please consult your monitor’s specifications to determine which resolutions are available with your display.
Digital Flat Panel Possible resolution and refresh rate TMDS Frequency Resolution Freq Hz 165MHz 140MHz 140MHz 125Mhz 1920 x 1200 1600 x 1200 1600 x 1024 1280 x 1024 60 60 60 60 Maximum digital transmission frequency of the RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION is a function of the receiver type in the attached flat panel display. With some TMDS receivers the frequency can be lower than the maximum 165MHz capability. For more information please refer to the specifications of your Digital Flat Panel display.
Specifications System Requirements • Power Macintosh computer with an AGP expansion slot. Operating System • Mac OS 9.2.1 or higher or Mac OS X version 10.1.3 or higher. • QuickTime version 5.0 or higher. • Apple OpenGL 1.2.2 or higher. Graphics Controller • ATI RADEON 9000 PRO — graphics and multimedia accelerator chip. Video Display Buffer • 64MB memory. • 256-bit memory interface. Bus • AGP 2X and 4X. Sync Signals • Separate horizontal and vertical sync at TTL levels.
Power • +5V ± 5 %, @ 1.3A typical. Environment • Ambient Temperature: 50° to 122° F (10° to 50° C) operation. 32° to 162° F (0° to 70° C) storage. • Relative Humidity: 5% to 90% non-condensing operation, 0% to 95% storage. MTBF • 120,000 hours. EMC Certification • FCC Class B. Safety • PCB made from UL-listed flame retardant material.
Glossary Alpha blending When an image has an alpha value for each pixel, this tells how much to blend the colors from the image with the background colors. The lower the alpha values the more transparent the image looks. Anti-aliasing Method used to remove the jagginess of an image. When anti-aliasing is used, the edges of an image appear smooth and usually somewhat blurry. Back buffer A type of offscreen memory used to provide smooth video and 2D graphics acceleration.
Buffers Your ATI accelerator card includes on-board memory which is used in a number of ways. Buffers are portions of this memory used as temporary storage on your card. One large buffer is always used to display the screen you see; this is the “display buffer”. The rest of offscreen memory is used by applications as back buffers, z-buffers, and texture buffers. CHARISMA ENGINE™ II Supports transforms, clipping and lighting at 62.5 million triangles per second at peak processing capability.
Pixel, Pel Picture element. Smallest addressable area of the computer screen. Pixels on computer displays are square; pixels on NTSC televisions have a 4:3 aspect ratio. PIXEL TAPESTRY™ II A 3D rendering engine which uses four rendering pipelines to process 2 gigatexels per second for high fill rates in 32-bit color at high resolutions. Refresh Rate Also referred to as “vertical refresh rate”. The rate at which a monitor or television can redraw the screen from top to bottom.
Index 3D Memory Monitor ATI Guide 11 requirements 2, 17 Numerics 3D Graphics memory usage 9 supported features 5 V 3D Memory Monitor description 9 Video Card 9 features 4 requirements 2, 17 specifications 17 A Apple Displays using DVI adapter 17 using VGA adapter 2, 17 ATI Guide accessing 3, 7, description 11 11 D DVI-to-VGA adapter 17 G Graphic Card features 4 requirements 2, 17 specifications 17 M Monitor Resolution 2D video mode table 15 Q QuickDraw 3D supported features 5 QuickTime r
