FIC A360 - Manual (Page 110)

Hardware Functional Overview
Integrated Savage4 2D/3D/Video Accelerator
• Optimized Shared Memory Architecture (SMA)
• 8 to 32 MB frame buffer using system memory
• Floating point triangle setup engine
• Single cycle 128-bit 3D architecture
• 8M triangles/second setup engine
• 140M pixels/second trilinear fill rate
• Full internal AGP4X performance
• S3 DX7 texture compression (S3TC™)
• Next generation, 128-bit 2D graphics engine
• High quality DVD video playback
• Flat panel monitor support
• 2D/3D resolutions up to 1920x1440
3D Rendering Features
• Single pass multiple textures
• 8-bit stencil buffer
• 32-bit true color rendering
• Specular lighting and diffuse shading
• Alpha blending modes
• Massive 2K x 2K textures
• MPEG-2 video textures
• Vertex and table fog
• 16 or 24-bit Z-buffering
• Sprite anti-aliasing, reflection mapping, texture morphing, shadows, procedural textures
and atmospheric effects
Motion Video Architecture
• High quality up/down scalar
• Planar to packed format conversion
• Motion compensation for full speed DVD playback
• Hardware subpicture blending and highlights
• Multiple video windows for video conferencing
• Contrast, hue, saturation, brightness and gamma controls
• Digital port for NTSC/PAL TV encoders
Advanced System Power Management Support
• Dynamic power down of SDRAM
• Independent clock stop controls for CPU/SDRAM, AGP and PCI bus
• Low-leakage I/O pads
Full Software Support
• Drivers for major operating systems and APIs
• North Bridge/Chipset and Video BIOS support
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