ATI RADEON 32MB SDR

At-a-glance

• Powered by the ATI RADEON™ graphics processing unit (GPU)
• 32MB SDR (Single Data Rate) Memory
• The best price/performance in its class
• Featuring ATI's CHARISMA ENGINE™ and PIXEL TAPESTRY™ technologies
• The most robust and integrated Transformation, Clipping and Lighting (T&L)
• Accelerates all of today's top 3D games
• Industry best DVD playback
• Supports 3D resolutions (32-bit color) up to 2048x1536
• Full support for DirectX® and OpenGL®

Powered by ATI's RADEON™ GPU

• RADEON™ graphics boards feature the leading-edge technology of the RADEON™ GPU
• The RADEON™ CHARISMA ENGINE™ supports full transformation, clipping and lighting (T&L) at 30 million/second processing capability for a 10-fold improvement in 3D details
• Features ATI's HyperZ™ technology that improves memory bandwidth without the added cost of embedded or proprietary memory
• 3D game characters are brought to life with the CHARISMA ENGINE™ support for other cutting-edge character animation such as vertex skinning and key frame interpolation
• PIXEL TAPESTRY™, the RADEON™ 3D rendering engine, powers up to an incredible 1.5 Gigatexels per second for unsurpassed graphics performance

Powerful 3D game support

• Full support of DirectX® and OpenGL®
• The most complete implementation of the DirectX® feature set
• RADEON™ supports more features of DirectX® 8.0 than any other graphics board on the market
• Instant superior 3D game support right out of the box with full acceleration for today's hottest 3D games
• Full support and compliance for powerful and demanding DirectX® and OpenGL games and applications

Industry best DVD playback

• Process full-frame rate, full-screen DVD or MPEG-2 video
• Hardware DVD saves the expense of buying a separate MPEG-2/DVD decoder card
• Integrated iDCT and motion compensation allows for DVD decoding with minimum CPU usage
• HDTV ready

3D acceleration features

• CHARISMA ENGINE™
• PIXEL TAPESTRY™ architecture
• Integrated Transformation, Clipping and Lighting
• Twin Cache Architecture
• Texture Cache
• Superscalar Rendering
• Single-Pass Multi-texturing
• True Color Rendering
• Triangle Setup Engine
• Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering
• Line & Edge Anti-aliasing
• Full screen Anti-aliasing
• Texture Compositing
• Texture Decompression
• Specular Highlights
• Perspectively Correct Texture Mapping
• Mip-Mapping
• Z-buffering and Double-buffering
• Hierarchial Z-buffer
• Emboss, Dot Product 3 and Environment bump mapping
• Spherical, Dual-Paraboloid and Cubic environment mapping
• Fog effects, texture lighting, video textures, reflections, shadows, spotlights, LOD biasing and texture mapping

Available configurations

Retail

• 32MB SDR PCI VO (Video-out) -all features including TV/VCR output support

Multipack

• 32MB SDR AGP -all features except TV/VCR output support
• 32MB SDR PCI VO (Video-out) -all features including TV/VCR output support