RADEON 9250 256MB DDR AGP8X DVI
Highly evolved and extremely programmable, Club-3D RADEON™ 9250 Series opens a stunning new world of immersive gameplay for PC enthusiasts.
Full Features:
CHARISMA ENGINE™ II
Four parallel rendering pipelines process up to 1.1 billion pixels per second
High performance 2nd generation hardware transform & lighting engine
Advanced vertex shader support for the latest programmable effects
SMARTSHADER™ technology
Full support for DirectX ® 8.1 programmable pixel and vertex shaders in hardware
1.4 pixel shaders support up to 22 instructions and up to 6 textures per rendering pass
1.1 vertex shaders support vertex programs up to 128 instructions
Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL ® via extensions
Programmable shaders provide enhanced 3D effects in over 100 existing and upcoming game titles
SMOOTHVISION™
Image quality enhancement features for Direct3D™ and OpenGL ® applications
Programmable full-scene anti-aliasing supports 2 to 6 samples with user selectable performance and quality modes
Advanced anisotropic filtering supports 2 to 16 samples for high quality texture rendering with minimal performance impact
HYPER Z™ II
Lossless Z-Buffer Compression and Fast Z-Buffer Clear reduce memory bandwidth by up to 25%
VIDEO FEATURES
FULLSTREAM™ Hardware accelerated de-blocking of Internet video streams
VIDEO IMMERSION™ II delivers industry-leading DVD playback
Integrated MPEG-2 decode including iDCT and motion compensation for top quality DVD with lowest CPU usage
Unique Adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing feature combines the best elements of the "bob" and "add-field" (weave) techniques
YUV to RGB color space conversion
Back-end scaler delivers top quality playback
4-tap horizontal and vertical filtering
Upscaling and downscaling
Filtered display of images up to 1920 pixels wide
Hardware mirroring for flipping video images in video conferencing systems
Supports 8-bit alpha blending and video keying for effective overlay of video and graphics
DISPLAY FEATURES
Dual integrated display controllers to drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates
HYDRAVISION™ software provides complete control over multi-display configurations with a user-friendly interface
400MHz Dual integrated DACs with 10-bit per channel palette
Integrated DVI-compliant 165MHz TMDS transmitter
Integrated TV-Out support up to 1024x768 resolution
GENERAL FEATURES
Comprehensive 4X and 8X AGP support
Windows® Logo Program compliant
Optimized for Pentium ® 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon™ 3Dnow! processor instructions
Highly optimized 128-bit 2D engine with support for new Windows® XP GDI extensions
