TECHNOLOGY FEATURES
Over 160 million transistors
Up to sixteen parallel pixel pipelines
Six parallel vertex processing engines
256-bit quad-channel GDDR3 memory interface
PCI Express® x16 lane native support
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SMARTSHADER™ HD
Full hardware acceleration of Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware
- DirectX 9.0 Vertex Shaders
- Vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with flow control
- Single cycle trigonometric operations (SIN & COS)
- DirectX 9.0 Extended Pixel Shaders
- Up to 1,536 instructions and 16 textures per rendering pass
- 32 temporary and constant registers
- Facing register for two-sided lighting
- 128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point color formats
- Multiple Render Target (MRT) support
Complete feature set supported in OpenGL® via extensions


SMOOTHVISION™ HD
2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes
Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable
sample patterns, and centroid sampling
- Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1) at all resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions
- Temporal Anti-Aliasing
- 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes
- Up to 128-tap texture filtering per AA sample
- Adaptive anisotropic filtering algorithm with bilinear (performance) and trilinear (quality) options

3Dc™
High Quality 4:1 Normal Map Compression
Works with any two-channel data format

HYPER Z™ HD
3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with Early Z Test
Lossless Z-Buffer Compression (up to 48:1)
Fast Z-Buffer Clear
Z cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering
Optimized for performance at high display resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions

VIDEOSHADER™ HD
Seamless integration of pixel shaders and video in real time
FULLSTREAM™ video de-blocking technology for Real, DivX, WMV9 and WMV10 formats
VIDEOSOAP™ noise removal filtering for captured video
MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration (requires optional soft DVD player)
- DXVA support
- Hardware Motion Compensation, iDCT, DCT and color space conversion
All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion (temporal filtering)

DISPLAY FEATURES
Dual integrated display controllers
Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400 MHz DACs
Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI 1.0 / HDMI compliant and HDCP ready)
Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution
Single and dual link external TMDS transmitter support for high resolution and/or multi-monitor DVI configurations
Compatible with ATI's THEATER™ video decode and capture devices for VIVO (Video Input / Video Output) configurations

ADDITIONAL FEATURES
Windows® Logo Program compliant
CATALYST™ Software Suite