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- Graphics Technology
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- Tyan Tachyon RADEON™ 9800 PRO-M graphics
technology
- Memory Configuration
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- 128MB of double data
rate SDRAM
- Features
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- Eight parallel rendering
pipelines
- Four parallel geometry engines
- 256-bit DDR memory interface
- AGP 8X support
- SMARTSHADER™
2.1
- Full support for Microsoft®
DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in
hardware
- 2.0 Vertex Shaders support
vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with flow control
- 2.0 Pixel Shaders support up
to 16 textures per rendering pass
- New F-buffer technology
supports pixel shader programs with unlimited instructions
- 128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit
per pixel floating point color formats
- Multiple Render Target (MRT)
support
- Shadow volume rendering
acceleration
- Complete feature set also
supported in OpenGL® via extensions
- SMOOTHVISION™
2.1
- 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
- Z cache optimized for
real-time shadow rendering
- 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 and HDCP ready)
- Integrated TV Output support up
to 1024x768 resolution
- Optimized for Pentium® 4 SSE2
and AMD Athlon™ 3Dnow!
- Windows® Logo Program compliant
Specifications were taken
from ATi's website. What all this boils down to is a graphics card that
scoffs at DX9's specifications. A 256-bit memory bus is allied to 680MHz
DDR, giving over 21GB/s of theoretical bandwidth. 8 rendering pipelines
and a 380MHz core afford the Tyan G9800 PRO-M a single-texturing fillrate
of over 3GP/s. Adding efficient antialiasing and anisotropic performance,
helped by the improved Hyper Z III feature, up to 128-bit shader
precision, and a whole host of other features; you'll soon have the
makings of the most powerful card ever launched by ATi (256MB model
excepted). The competition isn't just twiddling its thumbs. NVIDIA
launched the revised NV35 GPU recently. The FX 5900 Ultra model boasts
more bandwidth and a higher multi-texturing fillrate, and the FX 5900 is
no slouch.
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