RADEON™X2900 Chipset Features and Specifications

Ring Bus Memory Controller

• Fully distributed design with 1024-bit internal ring bus for memory reads and writes
- Optimized for high performance HDR (High Dynamic Range) rendering at high display resolutions

Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture

• 320 stream processing units
• Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders
• 128-bit floating point precision for all operations
• Command processor for reduced CPU overhead
• Shader instruction and constant caches
• Up to 80 texture fetches per clock cycle
• Up to 128 textures per pixel
• Fully associative multi-level texture cache design
• DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression
• High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
• Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs
• Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer
• Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear
• Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1)
• Lossless color compression (up to 8:1)
• 8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support
• Physics processing support

Full support for Microsoft DirectX 10.0

• Shader Model 4.0
• Geometry Shaders
• Stream Output
• Integer and Bitwise Operations
• Alpha to Coverage
• Constant Buffers
• State Objects
• Texture Arrays

Dynamic Geometry Acceleration

• High performance vertex cache
• Programmable tessellation unit
• Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification
• Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance

Anti-aliasing features

• Multi-sample anti-aliasing (up to 8 samples per pixel)
• Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality
• Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
• Temporal anti-aliasing
• Gamma correct
• Super AA (CrossFire configurations only)
• All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering

Texture filtering features

• 2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel)
• 128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering
• Bicubic filtering
• sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)
• Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF)
• Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support
• Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support

CrossFire Multi-GPU Technology

• Scale up rendering performance and image quality with 2 or more GPUs
• Integrated compositing engine
• High performance dual channel interconnect


ATI CrossFire Requirements
To implement an ATI CrossFire system that includes the ATI Radeon HD 2900 Series, the Following are required:
• An ATI CrossFire certified motherboard with two(2) PCI Express x16 slots and correct PCI-E chipset driver. A second ATI Radeon HD 2900 Series graphics Card.
• Two ATI CrossFire internal bridge interconnects.

Avivo™ Display System Dual DACs & MPEG 1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration

• Two independent display controllers
• Two integrated dual-link DVI display outputs
• Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs
• HDMI output support
• Integrated AMD Xilleon HDTV encoder
• HD decode acceleration for H.264/AVC, VC-1, DivX and MPEG-2 video formats
• HD video processing
• MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264/AVC encoding and transcoding
• Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
• VGA mode support on all display outputs

• PCI Express x16 bus interface
• OpenGL 2.0 support
• 700 million transistors on 80nm HS fabrication process
• 512-bit 8-channel GDDR3/4 memory interface

PERFORMANCES

• Memory interface: 512-bit
• Memory Clock Speed: 1650MHz
• Engine Clock Speed: 740MHz
• Processing units: 320
• Peak Pixel Fill Rate: 47.5 Gpixels/s

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