Overview

The RADEON™ X800 graphics technology is the world’s fastest and most powerful VPU, setting a new standard in graphics performance and visual realism. With up to 16 pipelines, higher clock speeds and breakthrough image enhancement technology, RADEON™ X800 Graphics Technology ushers in a whole new gaming category called High-Definition Gaming.

Features

• The World's Fastest and Most Powerful VPU
• Breakthrough Image Quality
• World's Most Advanced 3D Architecture
• Cutting Edge Video Technology
• DirectX® 9.0 Leadership Continues
• Stability is the foundation of the RADEON™ X800 Graphics Technology

Specifications

System Requirements

• RADEON™ X800 PRO, RADEON™ X800 XT and RADEON™ X800 XT PLATINUM EDITION require a connection to your PC's internal power supply for operation. Consult your system builder or OEM to ensure your system has an adequate power supply. Otherwise, ATI recommends a 300-Watt power supply or greater to ensure normal system operation where a number of other internal devices are installed.
• Intel Pentium 4/III, AMD Athlon 64/7K/Athlon XP with AGP 8X (0.8v), 4X (1.5V) or universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (8X/4X) or PCI Express™ bus configuration
• 128MB of system memory
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
• DVD playback requires DVD drive

Graphics technology

• RADEON™ X800 PRO, RADEON™ X800 XT and RADEON™ X800 XT PLATINUM EDITION graphics technology

Memory configuration

• 256MB GDDR3 memory
• 256-bit memory interface

Display Support

• VGA connector for analog CRT
• DVI-I connector for digital CRT or flat panel
• S-video or composite connector for TV/VCR
• YPbPr connection to HDTV
• Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates

Operating system support

• Windows® XP (Home or Pro)
• Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 1 (or later)
• Windows® Media Center Edition

Features

RADEON X800 Technology Specifications
 

• 160 million transistors on 0.13 micron low-k fabrication process
• Up to sixteen extreme parallel pixel pipelines
• Six programmable vertex shader pipelines
• 256-bit quad-channel GDDR3 memory interface
• AGP 8X support or PCI Express ™ support

SMARTSHADER™ HD
 

• Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware
• DirectX® 9.0 Vertex Shaders
  • Vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with flow control
  • Single cycle trigonometric operations (SIN & COS)
• DirectX® 9.0 Extended Pixel Shaders
  • Up to 1,536 instructions and 16textures per rendering pass
  • 2nd generation F-buffer technology accelerates multi-pass pixel shader programs with unlimited instructions
  • 32 temporary and constant registers
  • Facing register for two-sided lighting
  • 128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point color formats
  • Multiple Render Target (MRT) support
• Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® via extensions

SMOOTHVISION™ HD
 

• 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes
  • Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns, and centroid sampling
  • Lossless Color Compression (up to6:1)at all resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions
  • Temporal Anti-Aliasing
• 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes
  • Up to 128-tap texture filtering
  • Adaptive algorithm with bilinear (performance) and trilinear (quality) options

3Dc™
 

• High quality 4:1 Normal Map Compression
• Works with any two-channel data format

HYPER Z™ HD
 

• 3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with Early Z Test
• Lossless Z-Buffer Compression (up to 48:1)
• Fast Z-Buffer Clear
• Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering
• Optimized for performance at high display resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions

VIDEOSHADER™ HD
 

• Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
• FULLSTREAM™ video de-blocking technology for Real, DivX, and WMV9 formats
• VIDEOSOAP™ noise removal filtering for captured video
• MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration
  • DXVA Support
  • Hardware Motion Compensation, iDCT, DCT and color space conversion
• All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
• YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays†
• Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion (temporal filtering)
• Dual integrated display controllers
• Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400 MHz DACs Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI 1.0 / HDMI compliant and HDCP ready)
• Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution
• Windows® Logo Program compliant
• CATALYST™ Software Suite

Warranty
3-year limited warranty

What's included in the box:

Hardware
RADEON X800 XT PLATINUM 256MB AGP
7P to HDTV OUT CABLE
6' COMPOSITE VIDEO CABLE
6' S-VIDEO CABLE
S-VIDEO MINIDIN (8 PIN) TO COMPOSITE ADAPTER
DVI-I TO VGA ADAPTER
Y POWER CABLE SPLITTER

Software
CD RADEON X800PRO 256MB (DVD+MMC)

Manuals
RADEON X800 PRO USER'S GUIDE ENGLISH

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TV Wonder Pro / TV Wonder Pro RCE