MiTAC 8355 service manual General Description, Smartshader Advanced Shader Technology

8355 N/B MAINTENANCE

1.2.4 RADEON MOBILITY 9600

General Description

The RADEON MOBILITY 9600 provides the fastest and most advanced 2D, 3D, and multimedia graphics performance for the latest applications in full 32-bit color. Its architecture introduces the latest achievements in the graphics industry, which enable the use of the progressive new features in upcoming applications, but without compromising performance. ATI’s exclusive support of DirectX® 9.0 features, highly optimized OpenGL® support, and flexible memory configurations allow implementations targeted at both gaming enthusiast and workstation platforms.

SMARTSHADER™ — Advanced Shader Technology

Provides complete hardware-accelerated support for the new DirectX® 9.0 programmable shader model, enabling more complex and realistic texture and lighting effects than ever before.

Significant improvement over first-generation shaders introduced in DirectX® 9.0, with a much more powerful and intuitive instruction set.

Offers full support for this feature in OpenGL® applications.

SMOOTHVISION™ — Flexible Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering

The most flexible and efficient anti-aliasing implementation available to date.

Eliminates “jaggies” on the edges of objects, shimmering pixels on distant surfaces, and other visual artifacts for smoother-looking images.

Offers full support for this feature in OpenGL® applications.

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