ATI’s Radeon® X700 brings a richer visual experience to all your favorite PC activities – 3D gaming, watching movies and streaming video, Internet browsing, viewing and processing digital photos, or home office applications such as preparing multimedia presentations and spreadsheets. Whether upgrading or buying a new PC, the Radeon® X700 will easily handle today’s visual entertainment and workload with plenty of Питание in reserve for tomorrow’s possibilities.

Full-throttle Gaming
Boost your game play Производительность with the visual Питание and instant response you need to get the most from any DirectX® 9 and OpenGL® title. Radeon® X700 delivers beautifully rendered 3D animation for intense, interactive game play. Experience richer, more movie-quality visual effects than ever before withSmartShader™ HD, the world’s most advanced pixel shader engine. Experiment with your advanced 3D settings, and check the effect with a real-time 3D rendered preview. With up to 8 parallel pixel pipelines and 256 MB or 128 MB of high Производительность GDDR3 Память, the Radeon® X700 has the muscle to meet the demands of today’s fast-and-furious gaming, and tomorrow’s new applications and operating systems.

Full-thrill Video
Enjoy the full visual impact of DVD movies with smoother, clearer, and more detailed video playback . ATI’s VideoShader™ HD accelerates video processing and imaging with programmable pixel shaders for improved DVD playback and better multitasking while watching DVD video. FullStream™ sharpens image quality by removing blocky artifacts from streaming internet video. The Radeon® X700 connects to your television using S-video and composite video outputs, and supports both High Definition (HD) and Standard Definition (SD) modes for every type of available display.

Full-featured Software
ATI’s award-winning Catalyst® suite of software optimizes the Графический процессор of the Radeon® X700 while ensuring maximum stability and user control. Catalyst® automatically sets optimal settings for your system and enables safe GPU (Visual Processing Unit) overclocking, and in the unlikely event of a graphics hang, ATI’s VPU Recover automatically resets the Графический процессор so you can continue without interruption or data loss. Featuring frequent updates, reliable customer service, and an interactive user feedback program, ATI’s Catalyst® software suite is backed by ATI’s technical confidence, industry-leading capability, and uncompromising commitment to creating your ultimate visual experience.

Radeon® X700 is certified by Imaging Science Research Labs Inc.
The Imaging Science Research Labs (ISF RL) certification and logo identify ATI’s Media Center Edition-ready products as best-in-class multimedia components, tested and verified to meet a superior level of technical Производительность, and the approval of the most discerning eye and ear.

Видеокарта X700 серия Specifications

Radeon X700 Technology Specifications

• 4 or 8 parallel pixel pipelines
• Six programmable vertex shader pipelines
• 110 million transistors on 0.11 micron Техпроцесс
• 64/128-bit Память Интерфейс supporting DDR SGRAM, DDR SDRAM, GDDR3 SDRAM
• AGP 8x or PCI Express® x16 lane native support
• Video In/Video Out board versions available

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)
• Direct X 9.0 Extended Pixel Shaders
  • Up to 1,536 instructions and 16 textures 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 to 6:1)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 (Производительность) and trilinear (quality) options

3Dc™

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

HyperZ™ 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 Производительность 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)

Display Features

• Dual integrated display controllers
• Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400 MHz DACs Integrated
• 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI 1.0 compliant / HDMI interoperable and HDCP ready*)
• Integrated TV Output support up to 1024×768 resolution

* Currently there is no commercially available HDCP content. ATI’s Radeon® X and Radeon® 9550 серия of GPUs are capable of processing HDCP signals (“HDCP ready”), however ATI does not presently manufacture any Видеокарты which are HDCP ready. Some third parties manufacture Видеокарты containing ATI GPUs — you can inquire of them which models, if any, — are HDCP ready.

Additional Features

• Windows® Logo Program compliant
• Catalyst® Software Suite

2D DISPLAY MODES
Resolutions, colors and maximum refresh rates (Hz) in 256, 65K or 16.7M colors

*16:9 aspect ratio monitors are supported on 1920×1080 and 848×480 on Windows® XP, and Windows® 2000. The complete list of resolutions depends on the driver version and operating system.

MAXIMUM 3D RESOLUTIONS

NOTE: resolutions are limited by the Производительность of the attached monitor.

ATI Introduces the RADEON X700 Family of Visual Processors with Best-in-Class Price And Производительность

MARKHAM, Ontario – Sept. 21, 2004 – ATI Technologies Inc., today introduced the RADEON® X700 family of visual processors. The RADEON X700 delivers excellent graphics Производительность for gaming and visual processing, at a price suited to a broad range of customers. Delivering a gaming experience that is anything but mainstream, the RADEON X700 visual processing units (VPUs) include the advanced, cutting-edge features previously introduced in ATI’s RADEON X800 family of VPUs and a higher level of Производительность than some of last year’s high-end visual processors, but for less than $200.

“The RADEON X700 has been designed to deliver amazing gaming Производительность in all of today’s popular games,” said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President and General Manager, PC Business Unit, ATI Technologies Inc. “It’s easy to perform well in one game, but the RADEON X700 demonstrates its rendering prowess by performing well in a wide spectrum of games. It also delivers industry leading image quality and multimedia features for customers who use their computers for a wider range of applications.”

Основана на the award winning RADEON X800 Архитектура and designed to closely adhere to Microsoft’s DirectX 9 specification, the RADEON X700 includes advanced architectural elements and features previously reserved for products twice the price of the RADEON X700. The eight pixel pipe and six vertex pipe Архитектура is unique for products in this class, enabling unprecedented processing Питание than any other mid-range priced Графический процессорs on the market.

The RADEON X700 products, built by either ATI or one of its board partners, are supported by ATI’s award winning CATALYST(TM) suite of software. CATALYST AI, a newly introduced feature of ATI’s software suite, allows customers to enjoy improved levels of Производительность and a better overall experience with today’s popular games. Users enable and control their preferred level of Производительность enhancement without having to sacrifice image quality.

The RADEON X700 family will include the RADEON X700 XT, the RADEON X700 PRO and the RADEON X700, with a variety of Конфигурация памятиs and speeds to meet the wide range of needs of customers looking for a visual processor for gaming, streaming video, digital photo editing and other visually demanding activities. Priced as low as US $149, the RADEON X700 products deliver the best Производительность in their price segment.

The RADEON X700 PRO is now shipping. Products will be available soon from ATI and a stellar line-up of graphics card Производители including ABIT, ASUS, Connect3D, Diamond Multimedia, Giga-Byte, High-Tech, ITC, MSI, Palit, Sapphire, Tul, Visiontek and YUAN. The RADEON X700 XT and RADEON X700 will ship next month.

For more information about the RADEON X700 and ATI’s other products and technologies, please visit www.ATI.com.