System Requirements

Radeon 9700 Pro requires connection to your PC's internal power supply for operation. A 300-watt power supply or greater is recommended to ensure normal system operation where a number of other internal devices are installed.

Intel® Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron™, AMD® K6/Duron™/Athlon®/Athlon XP® or compatible with AGP 2X (3.3v), 4X (1.5V), 8X (0.8v) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (2X/4X/8X).

128MB of system memory

Installation software requires CD-ROM drive

DVD playback requires DVD drive

Graphics Technology

RADEON™ 9700 Pro Visual Processing Unit (VPU)

Memory Configuration

128MB of double data rate SDRAM

Operating Systems Support

Windows® XP

Windows® 2000

Windows® Me

Display Support

VGA connector for analog CRT

S-video or composite connector for TV / VCR

DVI-I connector for digital CRT or flat panel

Independent resolutions and refresh rates for any two connected displays

Features

Eight parallel rendering pipelines

Four parallel geometry engines

256-bit DDR memory interface

AGP 8X support

SMARTSHADER™ 2.0Programmable pixel and vertex shaders

16 textures per pass

Pixel shaders up to 160 instructions with 128-bit floating point precision

Vertex shaders up to 1024 instructions with flow control

Multiple render target support

Shadow volume rendering acceleration

High precision 10-bit per channel frame buffer support

Supports DirectX® 9.0 and the latest version of OpenGLSMOOTHVISION™ 2.02x/4x/6x full scene anti-aliasing modes

Adaptive algorithm with programmable sample patterns

2x/4x/8x/16x anisotropic filtering modes

Adaptive algorithm with bi-linear (performance) and tri-linear (quality) optionsHYPER Z™ III3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with early Z test

Lossless Z-Buffer compression (up to 24:1)

Fast Z-Buffer ClearTRUFORM™ 2.02nd generation N-Patch higher order surface support

Discrete and continuous tessellation levels per polygon

Displacement mappingVIDEOSHADER™Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video

FULLSTREAM™ video de-blocking technology

Noise removal filtering for captured videoMPEG-2 decoding with motion compensation, iDCT and color space conversion

All-format DTV/HDTV decoding

YPrPb component output

Adaptive de-interlacing and frame rate conversion

Dual integrated display controllers

Dual integrated 10-bit per channel 400 MHz DACs

Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI & HDCP compliant)

Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution

Optimized for Pentium® 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon™ 3DNow!

PC 2002 compliant

Warranty

3-year limited warranty