Diamond Radeon 9600XT - Manual

Explore stunning new worlds of cinematic gameplay with the Viper ® 9600XT graphics
accelerator card, featuring ATI Radeon 9600XT graphics technology! The Viper ® 9600XT
delivers an unprecedented combination of power, performance, and Microsoft ® DirectX ® 9
optimized support for the serious gamer. The Viper ® 9600XT’s Quad-pipe architecture and
high precision shaders will maximize your long-term entertainment value, pushing the
most compelling next-generation games to their limit!
Overview
Featuring
Featuring: RADEON TM 9600XT
Memory: 256MB DDR
Slot Type: AGP 8X
With: DVI/TV-Out
Viper 9600XT
Cinematic 2D/3D Graphics Card
System Requirements
• Intel ® Pentium ® 4/III/Celeron ™ , AMD ®
Duron ™ /Athlon ® /Athlon XP ® or
compatible with AGP 4X (1.5V),
8X (0.8v) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus
configuration (4X/8X).
• 128MB of system memory
• Installation software requires
CD-ROM drive
• DVD playback requires DVD drive
• Windows ® XP, 2000, or Me
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• 4 parallel rendering pipelines
• 2 parallel geometry engines
• SMARTSHADER
™ 2.0
• Programmable pixel and vertex shaders
• Multiple render target support
• High precision 10-bit per channel
frame buffer support
• Supports DirectX ® 9.0 and the latest
version of OpenGL ®
• SMOOTHVISION ™ 2.1
• 2x/4x/6x full scene anti-aliasing modes
• 2x/4x/8x/16x anisotropic filtering modes
• Adaptive algorithm with bi-linear
(performance) and tri-linear
(quality) options
• HYPER Z ™ III+
• Lossless Z-Buffer compression
(up to 24:1)
• Fast Z-Buffer Clear
• TRUFORM
™ 2.0
• 2nd generation N-Patch higher order
surface support
• Discrete and continuous tessellation
levels per polygon
• VIDEOSHADER ™
• Seamless integration of pixel shaders
with video
• FULLSTREAM ™ video de-blocking
technology
• Noise removal filtering for captured video
• MPEG-2 decoding with motion
compensation, iDCT and color space
conversion
• All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
• YPrPb component output*
• Dual integrated display controllers
• Dual integrated 10-bit per channel
400 MHz DACs
• Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter
(DVI 1.0 compliant)
• Integrated TV Output support up to
1024x768 resolution
• Optimized for Pentium ® 4 SSE2 and
AMD Athlon™ 3Dnow!
V9600XT