Overview

At-a-glance

Powered by the ATI RADEON™ graphics processing unit (GPU)

32MB SDR (Single Data Rate) Memory

The best price/performance in its class

Featuring ATI's CHARISMA ENGINE™ and PIXEL TAPESTRY™ technologies

The most robust and integrated Transformation, Clipping and Lighting (T&L)

Accelerates all of today's top 3D games

Industry best DVD playback

Supports 3D resolutions (32-bit color) up to 2048x1536

Full support for DirectX® and OpenGL®

Features

Powered by ATI's RADEON™ GPU

RADEON™ graphics boards feature the leading-edge technology of the RADEON™ GPU

The RADEON™ CHARISMA ENGINE™ supports full transformation, clipping and lighting (T&L) at 30 million/second processing capability for a 10-fold improvement in 3D details

Features ATI's HyperZ™ technology that improves memory bandwidth without the added cost of embedded or proprietary memory

3D game characters are brought to life with the CHARISMA ENGINE™ support for other cutting-edge character animation such as vertex skinning and key frame interpolation

PIXEL TAPESTRY™, the RADEON™ 3D rendering engine, powers up to an incredible 1.5 Gigatexels per second for unsurpassed graphics performance

Powerful 3D game support

Full support of DirectX® and OpenGL®

The most complete implementation of the DirectX® feature set

RADEON™ supports more features of DirectX® 8.0 than any other graphics board on the market

Instant superior 3D game support right out of the box with full acceleration for today's hottest 3D games

Full support and compliance for powerful and demanding DirectX® and OpenGL games and applications

Industry best DVD playback

Process full-frame rate, full-screen DVD or MPEG-2 video

Hardware DVD saves the expense of buying a separate MPEG-2/DVD decoder card

Integrated iDCT and motion compensation allows for DVD decoding with minimum CPU usage

HDTV ready

Specifications

System requirements

Pentium® III/II/Celeron, AMD K6®/Athlon

Compatible with PCI, AGP 2X or AGP 2X/4X universal slot

Installation software requires CD-ROM drive

DVD playback requires DVD drive

Graphics controller

ATI RADEON™ graphics processing unit (GPU)

Memory configurations

32MB of SDR (Single Data Rate)

Operating systems support

Windows® 98/98SE

Windows® ME

Windows® 2000

Monitor support

CRT Monitor: 15 pin VGA connector

TV and VCR: S-Video or Composite 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 & vertical syncronization at TTL levels

3D acceleration features

CHARISMA ENGINE™

PIXEL TAPESTRY™ architecture

Integrated Transformation, Clipping and Lighting

Twin Cache Architecture

Texture Cache

Superscalar Rendering

Single-Pass Multi-texturing

True Color Rendering

Triangle Setup Engine

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

Hierarchial Z-buffer

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 mapping

Available configurations

Retail 32MB SDR PCI VO (Video-out)

-all features including TV/VCR output support

Multipack 32MB SDR AGP

-all features except TV/VCR output support

32MB SDR PCI VO (Video-out)

-all features including TV/VCR output support

Warranty

5-year limited warranty

2-year limited warranty on whitebox / multipack

Display modes: resolutions, colors

and maximum refresh rates (Hz)

Resolutions 256 colors 65K colors 16.7M colors (32bpp)

640x480 200 200 200

800x600 200 200 200

1024x768 200 200 200

1152x864 150 150 150

1280x1024 130 130 130

1600x1200 90 90 90

1920x1440 75 75 75

2048x1536 75 75 75

Resolution and refresh rates are subject to change.