Model: PCI Bus Radeon 9000 (RV25P-B3)

Budget PCI 3D Graphics Accelerator for the Upgrade DIY system features a revolutionary Quad-Pipe architecture and SMARTSHADER programmable effects technology for the best performance and most realistic lightning of any graphics cards in its class. Now you can truly enjoy the latest 3D application and games with advanced Microsoft DirectX 8.1 shader support, delivering real time animation capabilities and photo-realistic lightning experience.

Features

Powered by the revolutionary RADEON 9000 graphics processing unit (GPU).

Best of class 3D gaming with a four-pipeline architecture.

Supports 250Mhz core engine / 380Mhz DDR memory clock speeds.

Supports ATI TRUFORM, SMARTSHADER, SMOOTHVISION, and HYPER Z II technologies.

Advanced video technology for smoother video stream and sharper image quality.

Supports DirectX 8.1 and OpenGL 1.3 features.

64MB of powerful double data rate (DDR) memory.

Latest 3D games support the advanced features of RADEON 9000.

Display configuration supports CRT, DVI-I & TV-Out (PAL/NTSC).

Dual display support with ATI HYDRAVISION.

Featuring ATI CATALYST -Industry-leading software suite for the best enhancement and accelerate the ultimate visual experience.

Industry-leading hardware DVD video playback.

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

PCI universal bus (for PCI systems).

Unsurpassed 3D gaming

Powered By the new Radeon 9000 graphics processing unit featuring the ATI CHARISMA ENGINE II and PIXEL TAPESTRY II architecture technologies.

Bring 3D game characters to life with a new level of realsim and cutting edge character animation features never before seen on a PC, along with a 10 fold improvement in 3D details and performance.

Best Visual Effects

ATI SMARTSHADER technology takes advantage of the DirectX 8.1 features to enable more complex and realistic texture and lighting effects.

Best performance for today and tomorrow demanding applications.

Full support and compliance with OpenGL 1.3 applications.

CHARISMA ENGINE II supports high performance 2nd generation hardware Transformation, Clipping and Lighting (T&L) at 50 million triangles/second peak processing capability.

PIXEL TAPESTRY II, the RADEON 9000 3D rendering engine, supports up to 1.3 Gigatexels per second for the highest fill rates in 32-bit at high resolutions.

SMOOTHVISION - advanced anisotropic filtering algorithm supports modes up to 16x to delivers the sharpest, clearest textures without sacrificing frame rates.

Support ATI TRUFORM accelerates N-Patches smoothes out curved surfaces and improves lightning quality in 3D scenes.

Industry-leading video playback

ATI VIDEO IMMERSION II technology enables integration of industry-leading digital video features, including advanced de-interlacing algorithms for unprecedented video quality and integrated digital TV decode capability.

Hardware DVD saves the expense of buying a separate MPEG-2/DVD decoder card and motion compensation allows for DVD decoding with minimum CPU usage.

DVI and TV/Video output support

Features 165MHz integrated TMDS transmitter to support DVI up to UXGA (1600x1200) resolution.

Get all of the incredible 3D and DVD of RADEON 9000 with the benefit of flat panels - crisper images, significantly reduced eyestrain and space savings.

Bundled Hydravision Multiple Monitor Management Software provides a flexible, user-friendly interface for multiple display settings.

3D Features

TRUFORM, SMARTSHADER

DirectX 8.1 support & OpenGL 1.3

SMOOTHVISION

HYPER Z II, CHARISMA ENGINE II

PIXEL TAPESTRY II, VIDEO IMMERSION II

Dual Display Support

Integrated Transformation, Clipping, 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 & Environment bump mapping.

Spherical, Dual-Paraboloid and Cubic environment mapping.

Fog effects, texture lighting, video textures, reflections, shadows, spotlights, LOD

biasing and texture morphing

System requirements

Pentium 4/Celeron/III, AMD K6/Athlon or compatible with PCI universal slot

Installation software requires CD-ROM drive.

Minimum 250 watts power supply or above configuration.

DVD playback requires DVD drive on PCs with an Intel Pentium III processor (or

equivalent) and 64MB of system memory.

Monitor support

CRT Monitor: 15-pin VGA connector.

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 & vertical synchronization at TTL levels.

2D Display Modes and Refresh Rates*

*Note: Lower maximum refresh rates at some resolutions when using lower bandwidth memory configurations

Operating system support

Windows XP

Windows 9X

Windows 2000

Windows ME

Accessories

1 set A/V cable.

Manual.

CD Driver with S/W DVD.

Specification are labeled according to the model and features on the package.

Note : Specification is subjected to changes without notice.