Features

Technology Features

• 160 million transistors on 0.13 micron low-k copper fabrication process
• 16 parallel pixel pipelines
• Six parallel vertex processing engines
• High precision 32-bit per channel rendering
• 256-bit quad-channel GDDR3 memory interface

SmartShader™ HD

• Advanced programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware
• 2.0 Vertex Shaders support vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with flow control
• 2.0 Pixel Shaders support up to 16 textures per rendering pass
• Single cycle trigonometric operations (SIN & COS)
• 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
• Shadow volume rendering acceleration
• High dimension floating point textures
• Full support for upcoming Mac OS X Core Image

SmoothVision™ HD

• State-of-the-art Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing
• 2x/4x/6x modes
• Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns, and centroid sampling
• Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1)
• Advanced anisotropic filtering
  • 2/4/8/16 trilinear filtered texture samples per pixel
  • Up to 128-tap texture filtering
  • Adaptive algorithm with bilinear (performance) and trilinear (quality) options Efficient adaptive algorithms enable this feature with minimal performance degradation

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

DVD and Quicktime™ Acceleration

• Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
• MPEG1/2/4 decode acceleration
• Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion (temporal filtering)

Advanced Dual Display Support

• Drive two Digital or Analog displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates
• VERSAVISION™ provides hardware accelerated display rotation and scaling
• DUAL-LINK DVI for high-resolution digital displays
• Support for HDTV output over DVI