Diamond Multimedia Radeon X600PRO User Manual
Overview featuring, Viper x600pro, Cinematic 2d/3d graphics card
Experience devastating speed and graphics performance with the Diamond ViperX X600 Pro! ViperX X600
Pro sets the new bar for PCI Express performance with a powerful combination of the industry’s fastest
true PCI Express architecture and the fastest full-featured support for DirectX 9.0 and OpenGL. Next
generation games like Doom III
®
, Far Cry
®
, and Half Life 2
®
place heavy demands on today's systems with
their realistic dynamic lighting, soft shadow effects, DX9 shaders, and bump mapping. Add the ViperX
X600 Pro to your system and get the massive calculation-crunching strength to enable ALL these features
and experience the full power of today's next-generation games!
Overview
Featuring
Featuring:
RADEON
TM
X600PRO
Memory:
256MB DDR
Slot Type:
PCI Express
With:
DVI/TV-Out
Viper X600PRO
Cinematic 2D/3D Graphics Card
System Requirements
• Intel
®
Pentium
®
4 or AMD
®
Athlon
®
64 FX CPU's
• CPU running at 2.4 GHz or higher
• 420 Watt power supply or higher
• Super VGA or DVI-I compatible monitor
• Microsoft Windows
®
XP
• PCI Express X16 compliant slot
• CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
• 64MB system RAM
• 90MB available hard disk space
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HDTV SUPPORT
Component output (YPbPr) for 480i, 480p, 720p and 1080i
(adapter sold separately)
LATEST TECHNOLOGIES
NATIVE PCI EXPRESS
Uses 0.13 micron with low k to bring a robust
low power high performance DX9 solution.
Enables unprecedented flexibility for new applications
and enhanced performance. Full 16 lane support with
8GB/sec bidirectional peak bandwidth support (vs.
bridged AGP bottleneck).
SMARTSHADER & VIDEOSHADER
Provides superior programmability and performance by
implementing Microsoft DirectX 9.0-level shaders at full
precision at all times. Includes: Four advanced
programmable shaders; full precision, full speed all the
time; MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX, Windows Media 9,
and Real Media hardware acceleration; adaptive per-
pixel de-interlacing, dynamically selected for every pixel.
2 FAST GEOMETRY ENGINES
With each engine capable of delivering two times the
output over those available in competing technologies
4 FULL PRECISION PIPELINES
Over double what other graphics technologies can offer to
provide over 2 GigaPixels/sec of unmatched shader power