Introduction; Highlights; Key Features - Asus AGP-V3400TNT/8MB User Manual

Thank you for purchasing an ASUS AGP-V3400TNT Series Graphics and Video Ac-
celerator. With the NVIDIA RIVA TNT™ built in, the ASUS AGP-V3400TNT Series
graphics cards provide you with extremely fast acceleration in 2D/3D graphics and
high quality scalable video playback, which can fully support 3D Business, Gaming,
and Multimedia Applications.

Highlights

• Supports professional graphics design, gaming, learning, and business applications
• Flicker free, high refresh rates reduce eye strain
• Powerful 3D rendering
• Crisp, realistic images
• Striking cinema-quality video

Key Features

• Built-in NVIDIA RIVA TNT™ 128-bit 3D Graphics and Video Accelerator
• 250MHz Palette-DAC
• Bus mastering DMA 2X 66MHz AGP V1.0 Interface with full sideband and "Ex-
ecute" model support
• Optimized for Direct3D acceleration with complete support for DirectX 5.0 and
6.0 features, such as multi-texturing, bump mapping, texture modulation, light
maps, full-scene anti-aliasing, and Trilinear and 8-tap Anisotropic filtering (bet-
ter than Trilinear Mip mapping)
• OpenGL ICD support in both Windows 95/98 and Windows NT
• TwiN-Texel (TNT) 32-bit graphics pipeline providing 2 texture mapped, lit pix-
els per clock and single pass multi-texture rendering
• 32-bit ARGB rendering with destination alpha, 16- or 24-bit Z buffer, 8-bit stencil buffer
• 100% hardware triangle setup engine
• High performance 128-bit 2D/GUI/DirectDraw acceleration
• Planar YUV12 (4:2:0) to/from packed (4:2:2) Color Space Conversion for soft-
ware MPEG acceleration and H.261 video conferencing applications
• DVD sub-picture alpha blend compositing
• Video Acceleration for DirectShow MPEG 1/2 and Indeo
• VESA DDC2B+, DPMS, VBE 2.0/3.0 support
• Built-in quality video capture and crystal clear TV-Out (V3400TNT/TV only)
I. Introduction
ASUS AGP-V3400TNT Series 7