Spécification des radeons 9500

Anandtech a publié les spécifications de la Radeon 9500 en se basant sur la Radeon 9500 de PowerColor :

• Powered by the AGP 8x Radeon 9500 Visual Processing Unit (VPU).
• Complete DirectX 9.0 support for precedented realism and sophisticated visual effects.
• SMOOTHVISION 2.0 technology provides new levels of image quality with advanced full-scene anti-aliasing (FSAA) and anisotropic filtering.
• Revolutionary new video features including VIDEOSHADER and FULLSTREAM technologies.
• 128-bit memory interface of the Radeon 9500 utilizes the latest HYPER Z™ III bandwidth-conserving technology and provides end users with faster graphics performance.
• Supports 64MB of high speed double data rate (DDR) memory @550Mhz clock speed.
• Compliant to the AGP 3.0 specification by Intel Corporation supports the corresponding technology, AGP 8X, doubles the peak bandwidth capability of the AGP bus to 2.1GB/s, while retaining compatibility with the previous-generation AGP 4X technology.
• Featuring ATi -Industry-leading software suite for the best enhancement and accelerate the ultimate visual experience.
• First 8-pixel pipeline architecture provides top 3D performance for both Direct3D and OpenGL games and applications.
• Display configuration supports CRT, DVI-I & TV-Out (PAL/NTSC).
• Multi-display configuration support with ATi HYDRAVISION software.
• Industry-leading hardware DVD video playback with software DVD support.
• Supports 3D resolutions (32-bit color) up to 2048x1536.
• Radeon 9500 ATi SMARTSHADER 2.0 technology, supports Microsoft DirectX 9.0 and the latest OpenGL functionality allowing gamers to experience complex, movie-quality effects in next-generation 3D games and applications.
• Four parallel rendering pipelines.
• Four parallel geometry engines.
• AGP 8x technology support.
• SMARTSHADER 2.0.
• Programmable pixel and vertex shaders.
• 16 textures per pass.
• Pixel shaders up to 160 instructions with 128-bit floating point precision
• Vertex shaders up to 1024 instructions with flow control.
• Multiple render target support.
• Shadow volume rendering acceleration.
• High precision 10-bit per channel frame buffer support.
• Supports DirectX 9.0 and the latest version of OpenGL.
• SMOOTHVISION 2.0.
• 2x/4x/6x full scene anti-aliasing modes.
• Adaptive algorithm with programmable sample patterns.
• 2x/4x/8x/16x anisotropic filtering modes.
• Adaptive algorithm with bi-linear (performance) and tri-linear (quality) options.
• ATi latest HYPER Z III support.
• 3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with early Z test.
• Lossless Z-Buffer compression (up to 24:1)
• Fast Z-Buffer Clear.
• TRUFORM 2.0.
• 2nd generation N-Patch higher order surface support.
• Discrete and continuous tessellation levels per polygon.
• Displacement mapping.
• VIDEOSHADER.
• Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video.
• FULLSTREAM video de-blocking technology for Internet Video.
• 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 400 MHz DACs.
• Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI & HDCP compliant).
• Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution (PAL/NTSC)
• Optimized for Pentium 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon 3Dnow!
• PC 2002 compliant.

Ces spécifications n'ont pas encore été faites officiellement donc des changement peuvent encore arriver.

Source : Inpact-hardware