In addition, the Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition offers the following graphics technologies:
SmoothVision™ 2.1 is an antialiasing solution that raises the bar for image quality using programmable multi-sampling methods to post-process graphics before they are displayed.
SmartShader™ 2.0 contains advanced vertex and pixel-shading capabilities. A shader is a small program that runs on the GPU and describes how an image should be rendered. Vertex shaders manipulate the individual polygons that make up 3D objects, and pixel shaders operate on the individual pixels that fill in these polygons to create a visible image. SmartShader™ 2.0 is designed to alleviate the resource constraints of earlier shader hardware, paving the way for more complex, detailed, and realistic shader effects in applications requiring high-performance 3D rendering.
HyperZ™ III makes Z-buffer bandwidth usage more efficient by decreasing the amount of information sent to the frame buffer at higher resolutions.
Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition only displays 3D graphics in thousands and millions of colors. If you set your display to 256 colors, this will affect Finder™, OpenGL®, Quartz® Extreme, and QuickTime® acceleration.
TV Out Support
The Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition supports TV Out by using the optional Apple® G5 DVI-I to Video Adapter. For more information see your local Apple® reseller.