RADEON™ X600 Features and Specifications
• World's first PCI Express™ Graphics Chip
• Native x16 lane PCI Express
• Double the bandwidth of AGP 8X
• Increased memory bandwidth to 12 Gigabytes/sec.
• Four extreme parallel 3D rendering pixel pipelines
• Two programmable vertex shader pipelines
• 128-bit memory interface supporting 128MB or 256MB DDR1 memory configurations
• Full DirectX® 9 support


SMARTSHADER™ 2.0
• SMARTSHADER™ defines the level of realism in latest 2D/3D games and applications
• Complete hardware-accelerated Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shader support
• Full hardware support for OpenGL® 2.0


SMOOTHVISION™ 2.1
• SMARTSHADERM™ improves image quality by smoothing jagged edges, improving blurriness and refining background details during on-screen motion and at lower resolutions
• SMOOTHVISION™ settings are user configurable in ATI CATALYST™ Control Panel:
• 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing (AA) modes
- Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns and entroid sampling
- Loss-less Color Compression (up to 6:1) at all resolutions
• 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering (AF) modes
- Up to 128-tap texture filtering
- Adaptive algorithm with bilinear (performance) and trilinear (quality) options.


HYPER Z™ III
• HYPER Z™ ensures optimal hardware performance bydiscarding irrelevant object data that is not visible to end-user on their display.
• Leverages key features from ATi's third generation HYPER Z™ III technology that conserves video memory bandwidth for improved performance in demanding 2D/3D games and applications
• Lossless Z-Buffer Compression (up to 48:1)
• Fast Z-Buffer Clear
• Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering


VIDEOSHADER™
• Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
• FULLSTREAM™ video de-blocking technology for Real, DivX, and WMV9 formats
• VIDEOSOAP™ noise removal filtering for captured video
• MPEG 1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration
• DXVA Support
• Hardware Motion Compensation, iDCT, DCT and color space conversion
• Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion (temporal filtering)


ADDITIONAL FEATURES
• Dual integrated display controllers
• Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400 MAz DACs
• Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI 1.0 / HDMI compliant and HDCP ready)
• Windows® Logo Program compliant
• ATI CATALYST™ Software Suite


PERFORMANCES
• Memory Interface: 256-bit / 4Channel
• Peak Memory Bandwidth: 11.84GB/sec. (This value is for reference only, depending on the type/size of memory implemented)
• Peak Pixel Fill Rate: 2.00 GB/s
• Dual RAMDACs: 400MHz
• Core Speed: 500 MHz
• Memory Speed: 370 MHz


OTHERS
• Operating Systems Support Windows® XP / 2000
• Power supply of 350 (and up) watt is highly recommended for system stability.
• 2D Display Modes: Resolutions, colors and maximum refresh rates(Hz) in 256, 65K or 16.7M colors