Introduction; Radeon™ X300 Series Features; Graphic Features; External Connections - ATI Technologies Radeon X300 Series User Manual

CHAPTER 3:

Introduction

RADEON™ X300 Series Features

Graphic Features

• Four parallel rendering pipelines.
• SMARTSHADER™
• Full hardware-based support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0/9.1
programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware.
• Shadow volume rendering acceleration.
• Complete feature-set support for OpenGL® 1.5 and 2.0
extensions.
• SMOOTHVISION™
• Full-scene anti-aliasing method that smooths uneven edges and
improves blurred images.
• 2x/4x/6x Anti-aliasing modes with aloss-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.
• HYPER Z™
• 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
• Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering.
• VIDEOSHADER™
• Seamlessly integrates pixel shaders with video in real time.
• All format DTV/HDTV decoding.
• Adaptive Per-Pixel- De-interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion.

External Connections

• 15-pin D-shell (female) VGA output.
• DVI-I output.
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