Connect Radeon 9200

RADEON 9200 series delivers a dazzling visual experience with the highest performance in its class, driven by an advanced Quad-pipe rendering architecture. Offering full support for the AGP 8X standard and extremely programmable geometry and texture engines, RADEON 9200 produces the sharpest
possible graphics and video imagery. RADEON 9200 puts ATI's advanced stability and highly optimized 2D and 3D features in the hands and desktops of PC enthusiasts everywhere.

QUAD-PIPE PIXEL POWER
A highly programmable graphics environment with four independent rendering pipelines gives
RADEON 9200 the pixel processing power to drive today's leading 3D applications. Matching high
performance with competitive pricing, RADEON 9200 series delivers barrier-free entertainment to the
most demanding PC enthusiasts.

HIGH-PERFORMANCE 3D
RADEON 9200 series is the first mainstream graphics solution to combine Microsoft® DirectX® 8.1
support with AGP 8X. Twice the bandwidth of other graphics processors provides substantial
horsepower for the most demanding desktop 3D applications. Add SMARTSHADER™
technology and watch RADEON 9200 handle the 3D experience with ease.

REDEFINING REALISM
RADEON 9200 sets new levels for visual realism in graphics and video content. SMOOTHVISION™
delivers the sharpest, clearest textures without sacrificing frame rates, while FULLSTREAM™
delivers smoother-looking, higher-quality streaming Internet content without putting extra
demands on the CPU.

MONITOR MANAGEMENT
HYDRAVISION™ provides the solution for controlling monitor real estate. RADEON 9200 series
supports effortless organization of multiple display configurations that increase efficiency,
productivity and enhance the gaming experience.

3D GRAPHICS FEATURES
o Four parallel rendering pipelines process up to 1.1 billion pixels per second
o SMARTSHADER™ technology
o Full support for DirectX® 8.1 programmable pixel and vertexshaders in hardware
o 1.4 pixel shaders support up to 6 textures per rendering pass
o 1.1 vertex shaders support vertex programs up to 128 instructions
o Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® via extensions
o Programmable shaders provide enhanced 3D effects in over 100 existing and upcoming game titles

o SMOOTHVISION™
o Image quality enhancement features for Direct3D™ and OpenGL® applications
o Programmable full-scene anti-aliasing
o Supports 2 to 6 samples
o Performance and quality modes
o Advanced anisotropic filtering
o Supports 2 to 16 samples
o Bandwidth-saving algorithm enables this feature with minimal performance cost

o CHARISMA ENGINE™ II
o High performance 2nd generation hardware transform & lighting engine

o HYPERZ™ II
o Lossless Z-Buffer Compression and Fast Z-Buffer Clear increase memory bandwidth by up to 25%

VIDEO FEATURES
o VIDEO IMMERSION™ II delivers industry-leading video playback
o FULLSTREAM™ hardware accelerated de-blocking of Internet video streams
o Hardware accelerated de-blocking of RealVideo video streams
o Integrated MPEG-2 decode including iDCT and motion compensation:
o All format DTV/HDTV decode
o Top quality DVD with lowest CPU usage
o YUV to RGB color space conversion
o Back-end scaler delivers top quality playback
o 4-tap horizontal and vertical filtering
o Upscaling and downscaling
o Filtered display of images up to 1920 pixels wide
o Unique adaptive per-pixel deinterlacing feature combines the best elements of the "bob" and "add-field" (weave) techniques
o Hardware mirroring for flipping video images in video conferencing systems
o Supports 8-bit alpha blending and video keying for effective overlay of video and graphics

DISPLAY FEATURES
o Dual integrated display controllers
o Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates
o HYDRAVISION™ software provides complete control over multi-display configurations with a userfriendly interface
o Dual integrated 10-bit per channel palette DACs operating at up to 400MHz
o Integrated DVI-compliant 165MHz TMDS transmitter supportsresolutions up to WUXGA(1920x1200)
o Integrated TV-out support up to 1024x768 resolution

GENERAL FEATURES
o Comprehensive 8X and 4X AGP support
o High performance dual-channel 128-bit DDR memory interface supports 64/128MB configurations
o Supports DDR-2M memory with on-die termination
o Windows® Logo Program compliant
o Optimized for Pentium® 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon™ 3Dnow! processor instructions
o Supports optional THEATER™ companion chip for NTSC/PAL/SECAM video capture
o Highly optimized 128-bit 2D engine with support for new Windows® XP GDI extensions
o Thermal diode supports dynamic cooling management