Model: PowerColor RADEON 9500? PRO

Specification

l RADEON 9500 PRO? supports AGP8X standard, up to 2.0GB/sec of data transfer from system memory to the chip

l Supports 8 parallel rendering pipelines processing up to 2.2 billion pixels per second.

l 4 parallel geometry engines process up to 325 million transformed and lit polygons per second.

l Supports Microsoft? DirectX? 9.0 allowing gamers to experience complex, movie-quality effects.

l SMOOTHVISION? 2.0 technology provides new levels of image quality with advanced full-scene anti-aliasing (FSAA) and anisotropic filtering.

l Revolutionary new video features including VIDEOSHADER? and FULLSTREAM? technologies.

l Supports 128MB of powerful Double Data Rate (DDR) memory @540MHz of Clock Speed with peak at 8.8 GB/sec bandwidth.

l Up to 8-pixel of Pipeline architecture provides top 3D performance for both Direct3D? and OpenGL? games and applications.

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

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

l First to fully support DirectX? 9.0 and the latest OpenGL? functionality.

3D Graphic Features

l Up to 8 parallel rendering pipelines process up to 2.6 billion pixels/second

l Four parallel geometry engines process up to 325 million transformed and lit polygons per second

l High precision10-bit per channel framebuffer support

l SMARTSHADER? 2.0

? Support for Microsoft? DirectX? 9.0 programmable pixel and vertex shaders in hardware

? 2.0 Pixel Shaders support up to 16 textures per rendering pass

? 2.0 Vertex Shaders support vertex programs up to 1024 instructions with flow control

? New 128-bit per pixel floating point color formats

? Multiple Render Target (MRT) support

? Shadow volume rendering acceleration

? Complete feature set also supported in Open GL via extensions

l SMOOTHVISION? 2.0

? State of the art anti-aliasing, new technology that processes up to 15.6 billion of anti-aliased samples per second for unprecedented performance.

? Supports 2x, 4x, and 6x modes with programmable sample patterns.

? Advanced anisotropic filtering, which supports up to 16 bilinear samples or trilinear samples per pixel.

? Bandwidth-saving algorithm enables this feature with minimal performance cost

l HYPERZ III?

? Hierarchical Z-Buffer and Early Z Test reduce overdraw by detecting and discarding hidden pixels.

? Lossless Z-Buffer Compression and Fast Z-Buffer Clear reduce memory bandwidth consumption by over 50%

l TRUFORM 2.0?

? 2nd generation N-patch higher order support.

? Discrete and continuous tessellation levels per polygon for dynamic LOD

? DirectX 9.0 displacement mapping

VIDEO FEATURES

l VIDEOSHARDER?

? Seamless integration of programmable pixel shaders with video data

? High quality, hardware accelerated de-blocking of internet streaming video

? Noise removal filter for captured video

? Integrated MPEG-2 decode

? Top quality DVD and all format DTV/HDTV decode with low CPU overhead.

? Filtered display of images up to 1920 pixels wide

DISPLAY FEATURES

l Dual integrated display controllers

l Integrated 16MHz TMDS transmitter(DVI 1.0 compliant)

l Integrated TV-Out support up to 1024x768 resolution

l YPrPb output for direct drive of HDTV monitors

GENERAL FEATURES

l Comprehensive 2x, 4x, and 8x AGP support

l High performance quad-channel DDR memory interface supports 64/128/256MB configurations

l Fully compliant with PC2002 requirements

l Optimized for Pentium 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon 3Dnow! Processor instructions

l Support optional THEATER 200 companion chip for NTSC/PAL/SECAM video capture

l Highly optimized 128-bit 2D engine with support for new Windows XP GDI extensions

OPERATING SYSTEMS SUPPORT

l Windows XP

l Windows 2000

l Windows Me

Note: NT Service Pack 3 supports AGP devices, but does not provide support for AGP Texturing.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

PowerColor Radeon? 9500 PRO are tested and certified to run on AGP 8x Motherboard and are backward compatible with existing AGP 4x Motherboard. Earlier revision of AGP 8x Motherboard manufactured should be updated with latest BIOS from their manufacturers service support web-site to compliant with the final release of the Intel AGP 3.0 specification.

Note: Specification is subject to changes without notice.