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ATI Technologies Radeon X1600 User Manual

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Radeon® X1600 Series Features 1

CHAPTER 1:

Introduction

Congratulations on the purchase of your ATI Radeon® X1600 Series
graphics card. We hope that you will enjoy countless hours of trouble-free
computing.

Radeon® X1600 Series Features

Features

• 157 million transistors on 90nm fabrication process.

• Dual-link DVI.

• Twelve pixel shader processors.

• Five vertex shader processors.

• 128-bit 4-channel DDR/DDR2/GDDR3 memory interface.

• Native PCI Express x16 bus interface.

• AGP 8x configurations also supported with AGP-PCI-E external

bridge chip.

• Dynamic Voltage Control.

Ring Bus Memory Controller

• 256-bit internal ring bus for memory reads.

• Programmable intelligent arbitration logic.

• Fully associative texture, color, and Z/stencil cache designs.

• Hierarchical Z-buffer with Early Z test.

• Lossless Z Compression (up to 48:1).

• Fast Z-Buffer Clear.

• Z/stencil cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering.

Ultra-Threaded Shader Engine

• Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0

programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware.

• Full speed 128-bit floating point processing.