Introduction; Radeon® X1900 Series Features; Graphic Features - ATI Technologies X1900 - Radeon XTX 512 MB PCIE Video Card User Manual

CHAPTER 1:

Introduction

Congratulations on the purchase of your ATI Radeon® X1900 Series
graphics card. We hope that you will enjoy countless hours of trouble-free
computing.
Radeon® X1900 Series Features

Graphic Features

• Native PCI Express® X16 bus support.
• 256MB or 512 MB GDDR3 on-board memory.
• Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® Shader Model 3.x.
• High performance Ultra-Threaded shader engine.
• Eight vertex shader processors.
• Forty-eight pixel shader processors.
• 512-bit internal ring-bus memory controller.
• 256-bit 8-channel memory interface.
• Native PCI Express® x16 bus interface.
SmoothVision™
• Full-scene anti-aliasing method that smooths uneven edges and
improves blurred images.
• 2x/4x/6x Anti-aliasing modes with a loss-less compression up to a
ratio of 6:1 at all resolutions.
• 2x/4x//8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes with up to 128-tap
texture filtering.
HyperZ™
• Ensures optimal hardware performance by discarding irrelevant
object data that is not visible to the user.
• Conserves video memory bandwidth.
• Loss-less Z-buffer compression
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