Chipset Features
◊ CineFX Shading Architecture
Support for DX 9.0 Pixel/Vertex Shader 2.0+
Very long pixel programs up to 1024 instructions
Very long vertex programs with up to 256 static instructions and up to 65536 instructions executed before termination
Looping and subroutines with up to 256 loops per vertex program
Subroutines in shader programs
Dynamic flow control
Conditional write masking
Conditional execution
Procedural shading
Full instruction set for vertex and pixel programs
Z-correct bump-mapping
Hardware-accelerated shadow effects with shadow buffers
Two-sided stencil
Programmable matrix palette skinning
Keyframe animation
Custom lens effects: fish eye, wide angle, fresnel effects, water refraction
◊ High-Performance, High-Precision, 3D Rendering Engine
4 pixels per clock rendering engine
128-bit, studio-quality floating point precision through the entire graphics pipeline
Native support for 128-bit floating point, 64-bit floating point and 32-bit integer rendering modes
Up to 16 textures per pass
Support for sRGB texture format for gamma textures
DirectX and S3TC texture compressio
◊ High-Performance 2D Rendering Engine
Optimized for 32-, 24-, 16-, 15- and 8-bpp modes
True-color, 64x64 hardware cursor with alpha
Multi-buffering (double, triple or quad) for smooth animation and video playback
True-color, 64x64 hardware cursor with alpha
◊ Intellisample Technology
Blistering-fast antialiasing performance
Adaptive texture filtering
Support for advanced loss-less compression algorithms for both color and z data
Fast Z-clear
◊ Advanced Display Pipeline with Full nView Capabilities
Dual, 400MHz RAMDACs for display resolutions up to and including 2048x1536@85Hz
Integrated NTSC/PAL TV encoder support resolutions up to 1024x768 without the need for panning with built-in Macrovision copy protection
Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) supports multiple video windows with full quality and features in each window
DVD and HDTV-ready MPEG-2 decoding up to 1920x1080i resolutions
Dual DVO ports for interfacing to external TMDS transmitters and external HDTV encoders
Support for dual-link DVI for compatibility with next-generation flat panel displays with resolutions greater than 1600x1200 without the need for reduced blanking
◊ Digital Vibrance control (DVC) 3.0
DVC color controls
DVC image sharpening controls
◊ Rocket Science For a System-Level Solution
0.13u process technology for higher levels of integration and higher operating clock speeds
Copper vias and wiring
Advanced thermal monitoring and thermal management
AGP 8X including Fast Writes and sideband addressing
◊ Operation Systems and API support
Windowsฎ XP / 2000 / Me / 98 / 95
Complete DirectX support, including DirectX 9.0 and lower
Full OpenGL 1.4 and lower