AMD Radeon 9600 Pro GDDR

RADEON 9600 Pro, 256MB DDR, AGP8x, TV-out, DVI Radeon® 9600 technology is available in four product configurations built by ATI: Radeon® 9600 XT, Radeon® 9600 PRO, Radeon® 9600 and Radeon® 9600 SE. For more details on differentiating features of the four products, please see the comparison chart for these products.

Explore stunning new worlds of cinematic gameplay with a balanced combination of power, performance, and Microsoft® DirectX® 9 optimized support featured in Radeon® 9600 family of visual processors. Maximize your long-term entertainment value with its Quad-pipe architecture and high precision cinematic shaders that will upgrade expectations for devoted gamers and casual fans alike - and push the most compelling next-generation games to their limit.

At-a-glance:
- A powerful base of four rendering pipelines, two geometry engines, and support for the AGP 8X standard
- Inspiring cinematic quality from ATI’s leading engineering
- Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0, the industry-leading API for the most wanted gaming titles
- Next-generation gameplay backed by the power and stability of Catalyst® software suite

Features
- 4 parallel rendering pipelines
- 2 parallel geometry engines
- 128-bit DDR memory interface (64-bit on Radeon® 9600 SE)
- AGP 8X support
- SmartShader™ 2.0
- Programmable pixel and vertex shaders
- 16 textures per pass
- Pixel shaders up to 160 instructions with 128-bit floating point precision
- Vertex shaders up to 1024 instructions with flow control
- Multiple render target support
- Shadow volume rendering acceleration
- High precision 10-bit per channel frame buffer support
- Supports DirectX® 9.0 and the latest version of OpenGL®
- SmoothVision™ 2.1
- 2x/4x/6x full scene anti-aliasing modes
- 2x/4x/8x/16x anisotropic filtering modes
- HYPER Z™ III+
- Lossless Z-Buffer compression (up to 24:1)
- Fast Z-Buffer Clear
- TruForm™ 2.0
- 2nd generation N-Patch higher order surface support
- Discrete and continuous tessellation levels per polygon
- Displacement mapping
- VideoShader™
- Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video
- FullStream™ video de-blocking technology
- Noise removal filtering for captured video
- MPEG-2 decoding with motion compensation, iDCT and color space conversion
- All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
- YPrPb component output*
- Adaptive de-interlacing and frame rate conversion
- Dual integrated display controllers
- Dual integrated 10-bit per channel 400 MHz DACs
- Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI 1.0 compliant)
- Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution
- Optimized for Pentium® 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon™ 3Dnow!
- PC 2002 compliant