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System Requirements
§ Intel® Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron™, AMD® K6/Duron™/Athlon®/Athlon XP® or compatible with AGP 4X (1.5V), 8X (0.8v) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (4X/8X).
§ 128MB of system memory
§ Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
§ DVD playback requires DVD drive
Graphics Technology
§ RADEON™ 9600 XT, RADEON™ 9600 PRO, RADEON™ 9600 or RADEON™ 9600 SE Visual Processing Unit (VPU)
Memory Configuration
§ 128MB of double data rate SDRAM
Operating Systems Support
§ Windows® XP
§ Windows® 2000
§ Windows® Me
Display Support
§ VGA connector for analog CRT
§ S-video connector for TV / VCR 1
§ DVI-I connector for digital flat panel 2
§ Independent resolutions and refresh rates for any two connected displays
1 Optional S-Video to Composite Adapter available separately from ATI Online Store.
2 Optional DVI to VGA adapter allows connection to a second VGA monitor.
Available separately from your retailer or the ATI Online Store.
Features
§ 4 parallel rendering pipelines
§ 2 parallel geometry engines
§ 128-bit DDR memory interface (64-bit on RADEON™ 9600 SE)
§ 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+
§ 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
*with optional HDTV adapter available from ATI Online Store | 
