Radeon® X300 graphics technology is
an affordable upgrade to broaden the
visual possibilities on your PC.
Radeon X300 delivers enhanced visual
quality and performance for today’s
and tomorrow’s graphics-intensive
digital photo and video
applications, web-surfing and
gaming. The Radeon X300 fully
supports the newest PC architecture
standard – PCI Express® with the
ability to send and receive data
simultaneously at twice the speed of
current AGP 8x solutions. The Radeon
X300 offers reliability, speed and
graphics computing power.
Whether it’s digital photography,
video editing, web surfing, viewing
streaming video or gaming, Radeon
X300 graphics technology offers the
performance to achieve the best
visual experience possible at an
affordable price!
The Radeon X300 enhances the PC
Experience:
Maximize Peripheral Investments
When
buying the best digital peripherals
like digital cameras and wide-screen
monitors, upgraded graphics is
required to fully optimize their
capabilities. It’s about balancing
input with output. The Radeon X300
drives high-end monitors to full
capacity, ensures better refresh
rates for reduced eye strain and
improves digital photo and video
image quality. The Radeon X300 is an
ideal PC upgrade to make your
digital photos appear at their best
before you email or edit them for
all to see.
Game for Glory
Gaming
enthusiasts reap the rewards of
ATI’s outstanding gaming reputation.
Radeon X300 is designed with a 4
pipe rendering architecture. It
provides full support for Microsoft®
DirectX® 9, and ATI’s SmartShader™
and SmoothVision™ technologies to
deliver impressive processing power,
and superior 3D image quality. All
this ensures that the Radeon X300
fully supports today’s game titles,
allowing for a much better gaming
experience.
Future-Proof Hardware
Next
generation operating systems and
applications will be designed around
PCI Express®. The Radeon X300
incorporates ATI’s one-chip PCI
Express® graphics solution so that
users can keep pace with changing
technology requirements.
Features:
SmartShaderTM 2.0
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SmartShaderTM defines
the level of realism in latest
2D/3D games and applications
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Complete hardware-accelerated
Microsoft®
DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex
and pixel shader support
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Full hardware support for OpenGL®
SmoothVisionTM 2.1
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SmoothVisionTM
improves image quality by
smoothing jagged edges,
improving blurriness and
refining background details
during on-screen motion and at
lower resolutions.
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SmoothVisionTM
settings are user configurable
in ATI Catalyst®
Control Panel:
HYPER ZTM III
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HyperZTM ensures
optimal hardware performance by
discarding irrelevant object
data that is not visible to
end-user on their display.
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Leverages key features from
ATI's third generation HyperZTM
III technology that conserves
video memory bandwidth for
improved performance in
demanding 2D/3D games and
applications.
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Lossless Z-Buffer Compression
(up to 48:1)
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Fast Z-Buffer Clear
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Z
Cache optimized for real-time
shadow rendering
VideoShaderTM
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Seamless integration of pixel
shaders with video in real time
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FullStreamTM video
de-blocking technology for Real,
DivX, and WMV9 formats
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VideoSoapTM noise
removal filtering for captured
video
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MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode
acceleration:
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All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
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YPrPb component output for
direct drive of HDTV displays
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Adaptive Per-Pixel
De-Interlacing and Frame Rate
Conversion (temporal filtering)
Additional Features
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Dual integrated display
controllers
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Dual integrated 10-bit per
channel 400 MHz DACs
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Integrated 165 MHz TMDS
transmitter (DVI 1.0 compliant /
HDMI interoperable and HDCP
ready)
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Integrated TV Output support up
to 1024x768 resolution
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Windows®
Logo Program compliant