Fx5900Ultra Series - MSI MS-8929 User Manual

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FX5900Ultra Series

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§ Wider memory data path with next generation controller technol-
ogy for superior performance and throughput.
NV IDI A CINE F X 2. 0 E NGI NE
§ Advanced pixel shaders deliver 2x the floating-point shader pixel
perfor manc e of previous generations.
§ Support for Microsoft
2.0 +.
§ Support for DX9 vertex shader 2.0+.
§ Long pixel programs up to 1,024 instructions.
§ Long vertex programs up to 256 static instructions with up to 65,
536 inst ructions execut ed.
§ Dynamic, conditional execution and flow control.
§ Architected for Cg and Microsoft HLSL for maximum compatibility
for next generation content.
§ 128-bit, studio-quality, floating-point precision computation through
the entire rendering pipeline.
§ Native hardware support for 32 bpp, 64 bpp and 128 bpp
render ing modes.
§ Up to 12 pixel shader operations/clock.
§ Up to 16 textures per rendering pass.
§ Support for sRGB texture format for gamma textures.
§ DirectX and S3TC texture compression.
§ Optimized for 32-, 24-, 16-, 15- and 8- bpp mode.
§ Tr ue-c olor, 64x64 hardware curs or alpha.
§ Multibuffering (double, triple or quad) for smooth animation and
video playback.
I N T E L L I S A M P L E H C T P E R F O R M A N C E T E C H N O L O G Y
§ Increased visual quality at higher resolutions through advances in
compression, anisotropic filtering, and antialiasing technology.
§ Blister ing-fast antialiasing and compression perf ormance
§ Support for advanced lossless compress ion algorithms for both
color, texture, and z data at even higher resolutions and frame
r at es .
§ Fast z-clear.
U LT R A S H A D O W T E C H N O L O G Y
§ Ac celerates shadow volumes f or nex tgener ation games.
§ Ac cur ately maint ains s hadows while discarding non-usef ul
information
ADVAN CE D DI S P L AY P I P E L I NE WI T H F UL L N V I DI A NV I E W
C A PA B I L I T I E S
§ DVD and HDTV-ready MPEG-2 decoding up to 1920x1080i
resolutions.
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Features & Specifications
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