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Review: Connect3D [ATI] Radeon 9500 Pro

by David Ross on 1 February 2003, 00:00 4.0

Tags: CONNECT3D [ati] Radeon 9500 PRO, Connect 3D

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Card Specification

Graphics controller

  • RADEON™ 9500 PRO Visual Processing Unit (VPU)
  • 275 MHz engine clock

Memory configuration

  • 128MB of double data rate SDRAM
  • 540 MHz memory speed

Operating system support

  • Windows® XP
  • Windows® 2000
  • Windows® Me

Display support

  • 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

Features

  • Eight parallel rendering pipelines
  • Four parallel geometry engines
  • 128-bit DDR memory interface
  • AGP 8X 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 Microsoft® 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
  • HYPER Z™ III
    • 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
    • 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 1.0 compliant)
  • Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution
  • Optimized for Pentium® 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon™ 3Dnow!
  • PC 2002 compliant
R9000 R9000 Pro R9500 Pro R9700 Pro
Core Speed Mhz 250 275 275 325
Memory Mhz 200 250 270 310