Radeon 9700 Pro Battle Tyan vs Gigabyte

GRAPHICS TECHNOLOGY

• RADEON? 9700 Visual Processing Unit (VPU) @ 325MHz

MEMORY CONFIGURATION

• 128MB of double data rate SDRAM @ 310MHz (620MHz DDR)

3D GRAPHICS FEATURES

• Eight parallel rendering pipelines process up to 2.6 billion pixels per second

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

• High precision 10-bit per channel framebuffer support

• 256-bit DDR memory interface

• AGP 8X support

SMARTSHADER? 2.0

• Full 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 OpenGL via extensions

SMOOTHVISION? 2.0

• State-of-the-art full-scene anti-aliasing

• New technology processes up to 15.6 billion anti-aliased samples per second for unprecedented performance

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

• Advanced anisotropic filtering

• Supports up to 16 bilinear samples (in performance mode) or trilinear samples (in quality mode) per pixel

• 2x/4x/6x full scene anti-aliasing modes

• Adaptive algorithm with programmable sample patterns

• 2x/4x/8x/16x anisotropic filtering modes

• Adaptive algorithm with bilinear (performance) and trilinear (quality) options

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

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%

• Fast Z-Buffer Clear

TRUFORM? 2.0

• 2nd generation N-patch higher order surface support

• Discrete and continuous tessellation levels per polygon for dynamic LOD

• DirectX 9.0 displacement mapping

VIDEO FEATURES

VIDEOSHADER?

• 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

• Hardware accelerated iDCT, motion compensation, and color space conversion

• Top quality DVD and all-format DTV/HDTV decode with low CPU overhead

• Back-end scaler delivers top quality playback

• Upscaling and downscaling with 4-tap horizontal and vertical filtering

• Filtered display of images up to 1920 pixels wide

• Unique per-pixel adaptive de-interlacing feature combines the best elements of the ?bob? and ?add-field? (weave) techniques

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

• Adaptive de-interlacing and frame rate conversion

• Dual integrated display controllers

• Dual integrated 10-bit per channel 400MHz DACs

• Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI and HDCP compliant)

• Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution

• Optimized for Pentium® 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon? 3Dnow!

• PC 2002 compliant

DISPLAY FEATURES

• Dual integrated display controllers

• Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates

• HYDRAVISION? software provides complete control over multi-display configurations with a user-friendly interface

• Dual integrated 10-bit per channel palette DACs operating at up to 400MHz

• Integrated 165MHz TMDS transmitter supports resolutions up to QXGA (2048x1536) and complies with DVI and HDCP specifications

• Integrated TV-Out support up to 1024x768 resolution

• YPrPb output for direct drive of HDTV monitors

DISPLAY SUPPORT

• 15-pin VGA connector for analog CRT

• S-video or composite connector for TV/VCR

• DVI-I connector for digital CRT or flat panel

• Independent resolutions and refresh rates for any two connected displays

GENERAL FEATURES

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

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

• Fully compliant with PC 2002 requirements

• Optimized for Pentium® 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon? 3Dnow! processor instructions

• Supports optional THEATER? 200 companion chip for NTSC/PAL/SECAM video capture

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