ATI Technologies manual Radeon X600 Features, Graphic Features, External Connections

RADEON™ X600 Features 1

CHAPTER 1:

Introduction

RADEON™ X600 Features

Graphic Features

•Four parallel rendering pipelines.

•SMARTSHADER™ 2.1

•Full hardware-based support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0/9.1 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware.

•Shadow volume rendering acceleration.

•Complete feature-set support for OpenGL® 1.5 and 2.0 extensions.

•SMOOTHVISION™ 2.1

•Full-scene anti-aliasing method that smooths uneven edges and improves blurred images.

•2x/4x/6x Anti-aliasing modes with aloss-less compression up to a ratio of 6:1 at all resolutions.

•2x/4x//8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes with up to 128-tap texture filtering.

•HYPER Z™ III

•Ensures optimal hardware performance by discarding irrelevant object data that is not visible to the user.

•Conserves video memory bandwidth.

•Loss-less Z-buffer compression

•Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering.

•VIDEOSHADER™

•Seamlessly integrates pixel shaders with video in real time.

•All format DTV/HDTV decoding.

•Adaptive Per-Pixel- De-interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion.

External Connections

•15-pin D-shell (female) VGA output.

•DVI-I output.