Specifications

System Requirements

• Intel® Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron™, AMD® K6/Duron™/Athlon®/Athlon XP® or compatible with AGP 2X (3.3V), 4X (1.5V), 8X (0.8v) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (2X/4X/8X) or PCI bus.
• 64MB of system memory
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
• DVD playback requires DVD drive

Graphics technology

• Radeon™9200SE, Radeon™ 9200 or Radeon™ 9250 graphics technology

Memory configuration

• 256MB for specific Add-In-Board designs - Radeon™ 9250
• 128MB of DDR memory
• Radeon™ 9200SE available with 64MB or 128MB DDR

Operating system support

• Windows® XP
• Windows® 2000
• Windows® Me
• Windows® 98/98SE

Monitor support

• CRT monitor: 15-pin VGA connector
• Radeon™ 9250 – Range of Add-In-Board designs *
• Radeon™ 9200 – VGA/RCA/S-video
• Radeon™ 9200SE - VGA/RCA/S-video
• Radeon™ 9200SE - DVI/RCA/S-video

* for a full range of Add-In-Board designs, please consult the Add-In-Board manufacturer

Display support

• Register compatible with VGA
• Supports VESA PnP compatible displays
• BIOS compatible with VESA for super VGA
• DDC1/2b/2b+ monitor support
• VESA Display Power Management Support
• Separate horizontal and vertical synchronization at TTL levels

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