A-Link Express Ii Interface; Acceleration Features - AMD 780E Technical Reference Manual

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Supports x1, x2, x4, x8, x12 and x16 polarity inversion.
1.2.5

A-Link Express II Interface

One x4 A-Link Express II interface for connection to an AMD Southbridge. The A-Link Express II is a proprietary
interface developed by AMD basing on the PCI Express Gen2 version 2.0 technology, with additional
Northbridge-Southbridge messaging functionalities.
Supports programmable lane reversal to ease motherboard layout.
1.2.6
2D Acceleration Features
Highly-optimized 128-bit engine, capable of processing multiple pixels per clock.
Hardware acceleration of Bitblt, line drawing, polygon and rectangle fills, bit masking, monochrome expansion,
panning and scrolling, scissoring, and full ROP support (including ROP3).
Optimized handling of fonts and text using AMD proprietary techniques.
Game acceleration including support for Microsoft's DirectDraw
Blit, and Masked Blit.
Acceleration in 1/8/15/16/32-bpp modes:
Pseudocolor mode for 8bpp
ARGB1555 and RGB565 modes for 16bpp
ARGB8888 mode for 32bpp
Significant increase in the High-End Graphics WinBench
Setup of 2D polygons and lines.
Support for GDI extensions:
In Windows XP and Windows Vista: Alpha BLT, Transparent BLT, and Gradient Fill.
In Windows 7: Alpha BLT, Transparent BLT, Color Fill BLT, Stretch BLT, and Clear Type BLT.
Hardware cursor (up to 64x64x32bpp), with alpha channel for direct support of Windows XP, Windows Vista
and Windows 7 alpha cursor.
1.2.7
3D Acceleration Features
Fully DirectX 10.0 compliant, including full speed 32-bit floating point per component operations
Shader Model 4.0 geometry and pixel support in a unified shader architecture:
Full speed 32-bit floating point processing per component.
High dynamic range rendering with floating point blending, texture filtering and anti-aliasing support.
High performance dynamic branching and flow control.
Nearly unlimited shader instruction store, using an advance caching system.
Advanced shader design, with ultra-threading sequencer for high efficiency operations.
Advanced, high performance branching support, including static and dynamic branching.
32-bit floating point components for high dynamic range computations.
Full anti-aliasing on render surfaces up to and including 128-bit floating point formats.
Support for OpenGL
Anti-Aliasing Filtering:
2x/4x/8x modes.
Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns, and centroid sampling.
Temporal anti-aliasing.
Adaptive anti-aliasing mode.
Lossless color compression (up to 8:1) at all resolutions, up to and including widescreen HDTV.
Anisotropic Filtering:
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© 2009 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
RS780E Features
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