Are you in the market for a new videocard but can't afford the top of line? We'll today we take a look at the mid-ranged priced PowerColor Radeon 9600 Pro 128meg videocard so come check it out.
The 9600 Pro comes packed complete with manual, a copy of WinDVD 4, and RCA cables. The card is powered with a GPU core of 400mhz and DDR memory running at 600mhz (2x300mhz).
The 9600 Pro takes advantage of the new Direct X 9.0 which give better performance and 3d imagery in Multimedia.
The Card uses Quad-Pipe architecture which delivers real-time cinematic rendering and animation. Using Smartshader 2.0 it delivers more complex and cinematic-quality lighting effects. One other feature it uses is called Smartvision. Smartvision sharpens and clears up graphics without sacrificing frame rates.
Also supported is AGP 8X for increased speed and performance.
The Radeon 9600 Pro can be used with two independent displays. This allows you to use a TV, LCD, etc as an alternate way of viewing or to extend the size of your desktop between two displays.
Model
Chipset:
-RADEON 9600
Support Memory/bandwidth:
-128MB DDR SDRAM
-128 bit
Connectors:
- VGA
- TV-out (S-Video connector)
- DVI Connector
Specifications:
4 parallel rendering pipelines
2 parallel geometry engines
128-bit DDR memory interface
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
Adaptive algorithm with programmable sample patterns
2x/4x/8x/16x anisotropic filtering modes
Adaptive algorithm with bi-linear (performance) and tri-linear (quality) options
HYPER Z™ III+
3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with early Z test
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
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