Radeon VE

RADEON™ VE

 

RADEON™ VE offers excellent features and performance. Ideal solution for home and office with flexible multi-display support, eye-catching 32-bit true color, comprehensive support for all popular operating systems, DVD playback and integrated DVI/CRT/TV-output.

The ability of the RADEON™ VE to support dual displays is fully optimized with HydraVision™ Multiple Monitor Management Software making the RADEON™ VE the leading edge product for dual display. Please click here to view the HydraVision™ demo.

 

AT A GLANCE

  • Powered by the RADEON™ VE graphics processor
  • HydraVision™ Multiple Monitor Management Software gives you flexible multi-display support to enable many combinations of VGA, DVI and TV
  • Up to 64MB of DDR memory
  • ATI's HYPER Z™ technology reduces memory bandwidth consumption resulting in improved performance
  • Incredible 3D graphics performance with ATI's PIXEL TAPESTRY™ 3D rendering engine
  • Supports DirectX® 7.0, DirectX 8.0® and OpenGL®
  • DVI interface with integrated TMDS for economical digital flat panel support
  • DVD playback with integrated motion compensation and iDCT
  • Analog video output support for both composite and S-Video
  • Supports 3D resolutions (32-bit color) up to 1920 x 1200
  • AGP universal bus (for AGP 2X/4X systems)

 

HydraVision™ Multiple Monitor Management Software

  • Leading-edge RADEON™ VE technology of supports traditional CRT monitors, flat panel displays and TVs
  • Multi-task with MultiDesk - Create, name, and organize up to nine active multi-monitor desktop applications
  • Assign Hot Key shortcuts for the functions you use most often: moving active windows or applications, accessing controls on the fly, or opening applications - with a single keystroke
  • Set your applications to automatically open in your preferred position on your monitors using the Application Position Memory feature - eliminating the need to reset your settings every time you turn on your computer
  • Read more about HydraVision™


Excellent 3D Performance

  • RADEON™ VE, with powerful double data rate memory, delivers excellent 3D performance in its class
  • ATI's HYPER Z™ technology reduces memory bandwidth consumption resulting in improved performance
  • RADEON™ VE supports DirectX® 7.0, DirectX® 8.0, and Open GL® allowing for superior graphics and 3D textures that add a more natural look to game environments
  • Experience the incredible 3D and DVD of RADEON™ VE with flat panel displays to enjoy crisper and clearer images, true flat screen, reduced eyestrain and space savings
  • Crisp and clear 32-bit 3D resolutions up to 1900 x 1200


Reliable and Proven Technology

  • RADEON™ VE employs the award-winning technology from ATI's successful graphics accelerators for consistent, stable performance
  • Unified driver architecture allows for the use of one driver set across the RADEON™ family of products
  • Quality product from the world's largest manufacturer of graphics boards means reduced cost of ownership - less downtime, low power consumption, full technical support, and five-year warranty

 

Industry Leading DVD Playback

  • RADEON™ VE features ATI's VIDEO IMMERSION™ technology for industry leading video playback
  • Integrated motion compensation & iDCT enables multi-tasking during DVD playback - even on basic PCs
  • Process full-frame rate, full-screen DVD or MPEG-2 video
  • ATI's adaptive de-interlacing process gives the best possible DVD video quality by reducing feathered or blurred images
  • Built-in DVD playback saves the expense of buying a separate MPEG-2/DVD decoder card

 

 

 

SPECIFICATIONS

 

System Requirements

  • Intel® Pentium™ 4/III/II/I, 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 on PCs with an Intel® Pentium™ II processor (or equivalent) and 32MB of system memory


Graphics Controller

  • RADEON™ VE graphics processor

 

Memory Configurations

  • 64MB DDR, 32MB DDR, 16MB DDR


Operating Systems Support

  • Windows® 98SE
  • Windows® Me
  • Windows® 2000

 

Monitor Support

  • CRT Monitor: 15 pin VGA connector
  • S-Video or composite connector
  • DVI-I (flat panel display) 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 horizontal and vertical syncronization at TTL levels


3D Acceleration Features

  • HYPER Z™ technology
  • PIXEL TAPESTRY™ architecture
  • VIDEO IMMERSION™ technology
  • Twin Cache Architecture
  • Single-Pass Multi-texturing (3 textures per clock cycle)
  • True Color Rendering
  • Triangle Setup Engine
  • Texture Cache
  • Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering
  • Line & Edge Anti-aliasing
  • Texture Decompression support under DirectX® (DXTC) and OpenGL®
  • 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
  • Full Screen Anti-Aliasing (FSAA)

 

WARRANTY

  • 5-year limited warranty

 

Display Modes: Resolutions, Colors and Maximum Refresh Rates (Hz):

Monitor Resolution

256 colors

65K colors

16.7M colors

640x480

200

200

200

800x600

200

200

200

1024x768

200

200

200

1152x864

160

160

160

1280x1024

120

120

120

1600x1200

100

100

100

1920x1080

90

90

90

1920x1200

90

90

90

1920x1440

75

75

75

2048x1536

60

60

60

Resolution and refresh rates are subject to change.

 

Maximum 3D Resolutions

 

16MB

32MB

65K Colors

1600x1200

1920x1440

16.7M Colors

1280x1024

1920x1200

Maximum 3D resolution and colors supported with specified memory with double buffered setting and 32-bit Z-buffer.

 

Available Configurations

Retail

Multipack

32MB DDR - includes TV/VCR output, DVI & VGA support

64MB DDR - includes TV/VCR output, DVI & VGA support

64MB DDR - includes TV/VCR output, DVI & VGA support

32MB DDR - includes TV/VCR output, DVI & VGA support

 

16MB DDR - includes VGA support only

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