RADEON™ 64MB DDR   AT-A-GLANCE Powered by the ATI RADEON™ graphics processing unit (GPU) 64MB of powerful double data rate (DDR) memory Featuring ATI's CHARISMA ENGINE™ and PIXEL TAPESTRY™ technologies The most robust integrated Transformation and Lighting (T&L) Accelerates all of today's top 3D games Industry best DVD playback Video capture and TV/VCR-output support (retail version) Optional video capture and TV/VCR-output support (non-retail versions) Supports 3D resolutions (32-bit color) up to 2048x1536 AGP Universal bus (for AGP 2X/4X systems) Click here for the RADEON™ FAQ   High Quality Performance RADEON™ comes powered by 64MB of DDR memory to accelerate all of today's hottest 3D games With DDR memory you get twice the memory bandwidth for the highest data transfer rates through the pipeline Delivers immersive, realistic 32-bit true color 3D graphics at the fastest possible framerates Features ATI's HyperZ™ technology that improves memory bandwidth without the added cost of proprietary memory.   Ultimate 3D Game Support The most complete implementation of the DirectX® feature set RADEON™ supports more features of DirectX® 8.0 than any other graphics board on the market Instant superior 3D game support right out of the box with full acceleration for today's hottest 3D games Full support and compliance for powerful and demanding DirectX® and OpenGL games and applications   Best Visual Reality RADEON™ graphics boards feature the leading-edge technology of the RADEON™ GPU The RADEON™ CHARISMA ENGINE™ supports full transformation, clipping and lighting (T&L) at 30 million/second processing capability for a 10-fold improvement in 3D details 3D game characters are brought to life with the CHARISMA ENGINE™ support for other cutting-edge character animation such as vertex skinning and key frame interpolation PIXEL TAPESTRY™ , the RADEON™ 3D rendering engine, powers up to an incredible 1.5 Gigatexels per second for unsurpassed graphics performance   Industry Best DVD Playback Process full-frame rate, full-screen DVD or MPEG-2 video Hardware DVD saves the expense of buying a separate MPEG-2/DVD decoder card Integrated IDCT and motion compensation allows for DVD decoding with minimum CPU usage HDTV ready   Video Capture and TV/VCR-output support (Optional features) RADEON™ uses the ATI RAGE THEATRE™ companion chip for high quality video encoding and decoding Full motion video capture (MPEG-1 and MPEG-2) and still image capture Use video-out to connect your PC to TV or VCR for recording         System Requirements Pentium® III/II/Celeron, AMD K6®/Athlon or compatible with AGP 2X or AGP 2X/4X universal slot Installation software requires CD-ROM drive DVD playback requires DVD drive   Graphics Controller ATI RADEON™ graphics processing unit (GPU)   Memory Configurations 64MB of double data rate memory   Operating Systems Support Windows® 98/SE Windows® ME Windows® 2000   Monitor Support CRT Monitor: 15 pin VGA connector TV and VCR: S-Video or Composite connector   Display Support Register compatible with VGA BIOS compatible with VESA for super VGA DDC1/2b/2b+ monitor support VESA Display Power Management Support Separate horiz & vert sync at TTL levels   3D Acceleration Features CHARISMA ENGINE™ PIXEL TAPESTRY™ architecture Integrated Transformation, Clipping and Lighting Twin Cache Architecture Superscalar Rendering Single-Pass Multi-texturing True Color Rendering Triangle Setup Engine Texture Cache Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering Line & Edge Anti-aliasing Texture Compositing Texture Decompression Specular Highlights Perspectively Correct Texture Mapping Mip-Mapping Z-buffering and Double-buffering Emboss, Dot Product 3 and Environment bump mapping Spherical, Dual-Paraboloid and Cubic environment mapping Fog effects, texture lighting, video textures, reflections, shadows, spotlights, LOD biasing and texture morphing   WARRANTY 5-year limited warranty   Display Modes: Resolutions, Colors and Maximum Refresh Rates (Hz) Resolutions 640x 480 800x 600 1024x 768 1152x 864 1280x 1024 1600x 1200 1920x 1440 2048x 1536 256 colors 200 200 200 150 130 90 75 75 65K colors 200 200 200 150 130 90 75 75 16.7M colors (32bpp) 200 200 200 150 130 90 75 75 Resolution and refresh rates are subject to change.

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