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Sapphire X800 Series Roundup

Date: 2005-11-17

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Technical Specifications

Technical Specifications for the Radeon X800 GTO/GTO2
GraphicsEngine
  • ATIRADEON X800 GTO VisualProcessing Unit (VPU)
  • DefaultVPU clock = 400MHz
  • 12parallel rendering pipelines
  • 6parallel geometry engines
  • 256-bitmemory interface
  • SMARTSHADER?HD
    • Full support forMicrosoft?DirectX?9.0 programmable vertex and pixelshadersin hardware
    • 2.0Vertex Shaders
      • Supportsvertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with flow control
      • Single cycletrigonometric operations (SIN & COS)
    • 2.0Extended Pixel Shaders
      • Supports up to1,536 instructions and 16 textures perrendering pass
      • 2nd GenerationF-buffer technology acceleratesmulti-pass pixel shader programs with unlimited instructions
      • 32temporary and constant registers
      • Facing registerfor two-sided lighting
      • 128-bit, 64-bit& 32-bit per pixel floating pointcolor formats
      • Multiple RenderTarget (MRT) support
    • Completefeature set also supported in OpenGL?via extensions
  • SMOOTHVISION?HD
    • 2x/4x/6xfull scene anti-aliasing modes
      • Sparsemulti-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable samplepatterns, and centroid sampling
      • LosslessColor Compression (up to6: 1) at all resolutions, including widescreenHDTV resolutions
      • TemporalAnti-Aliasing
    • 2x/4x/8x/16xanisotropic filtering modes
      • Up to 128-taptexture filtering
      • (Adaptivealgorithm with bi-linear (performance) andtri-linear (quality) options)
  • 3Dc?
    • High quality 4:1Normal Map Compression
    • Works with anytwo-channel data format
  • HYPER Z?HD
    • 3-level HierarchicalZ-Buffer with early Z test
    • Lossless Z-Buffercompression (up to 48:1)
    • Fast Z-Buffer Clear
    • Z cache optimizedfor real-time shadow rendering
    • Optimized forperformance at high display resolutions,including widescreen HDTV resolutions
  • VIDEOSHADER?HD
    • Seamless integrationof pixel shaders with video in realtime
    • FULLSTREAM?video de-blocking technology for Real,DivX, and WMV9 formats
    • VIDEOSOAP?noise removal filtering for capturedvideo
    • All-format DTV/HDTVdecoding
    • Adaptive Per-PixelDe-Interlacing and Frame RateConversion (temporal filtering)
  • Dualintegrated display controllers
  • Single and dual linkexternal TMDS transmitter support forhigh resolution and/or multi-monitor DVI configurations
GraphicsMemory
  • 256MBDDR3 SDRAM
  • DefaultMemory clock = 980MHz (490MHz DDR)
RAMDAC
  • Dualintegrated 10-bit perchannel 400MHz DACs
  • Integrated165MHz TMDStransmitter (DVI 1.0 compliant and HDCP ready)
I/OFaceplate Connectors
  • 1x DVI-Iconnectors
  • 1 x mini-DINconnector
  • 1 xanalog VGA output
Drivers& Software
  • Driversupport for Windows 98SE/ Me / NT / 2000 / XP
OtherInformation
  • PCIe x16slotrequired




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