Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support

• Shader Model 4.1
• 32-bit floating point texture filtering
• Indexed cube map arrays
• Independent blend modes per render target
• Pixel coverage sample masking
• Read/write multi-sample surfaces with shaders
• Gather4 texture fetching
• Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture

·        1600 stream processing units

·         Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders

·         Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders

·         Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors

·         128-bit floating point precision for all operations

·         Command processor for reduced CPU overhead

·         Shader instruction and constant caches

·         Up to 320 texture fetches per clock cycle

·         Up to 128 textures per pixel

·         Fully associative multi-level texture cache design

·         DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression

·         High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)

·         Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs

·         Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer

·         Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear

·         Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1)

·         Lossless color compression (up to 8:1)

·         8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support

·         Physics processing support

Dynamic Geometry Acceleration

·         High performance vertex cache

·         Programmable tessellation unit

·         Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification

·         Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance

Anti-aliasing features

·         Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4 or 8 samples per pixel)

·         Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality

·         Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling

·         Gamma correct

·         Super AA (ATI CrossFireX™ configurations only)

·         All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering

Texture filtering features

·         2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel)

·         128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering

·         sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)

·         Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF)

·         Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support

·         Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support

OpenGL 2.0 support

ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform

·       2nd generation Unified Video Decoder (UVD 2)

•      Enabling hardware decode acceleration of H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2

•      Dual stream playback (or Picture-in-picture)

·         Hardware MPEG-1, and DivX video decode acceleration

·         Motion compensation and IDCT

·         ATI Avivo Video Post Processor

·         New enhanced DVD up-conversion to HD

·         New automatic and dynamic contrast adjustment

·         Color space conversion

·         Chroma subsampling format conversion

·         Horizontal and vertical scaling

·         Gamma correction

·         Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing

·         De-blocking and noise reduction filtering

·         Detail enhancement

·         Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)

·         Bad edit correction

·         Full score in HQV (SD) and HQV (HD) video quality benchmarks

·         Two independent display controllers

·         Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video overlays for each display

·         Full 30-bit display processing

·         Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion

·         Spatial/temporal dithering provides 30-bit color quality on 24-bit and 18-bit displays

·         High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all display outputs

·         Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays

·         Fast, glitch-free mode switching

·         Hardware cursor

·         Two integrated DVI display outputs

·          Primary supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI)1

·          Secondary supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI only)3

·          Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content2

·         Two integrated 400MHz 30-bit RAMDACs

·          Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x15363

·         DisplayPort™ output support

·          Supports 24- and 30-bit displays at all resolutions up to 2560x16003

·         HDMI output support

·          Supports all display resolutions up to 1920x10803

·         Integrated HD audio controller with up to 2 channel 48 kHz stereo or multi-channel (7.1) AC3 enabling a plug-and-play cable-less audio solution

·         Integrated AMD Xilleon™ HDTV encoder

·         Provides high quality analog TV output (component/S-video/composite)

·         Supports SDTV and HDTV resolutions

·         Underscan and overscan compensation

·         MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264/AVC encoding and transcoding

·         Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time

·         VGA mode support on all display outputs

ATI PowerPlay™

·         Advanced power management technology for optimal performance and power savings

·         Performance-on-Demand

·         Constantly monitors GPU activity, dynamically adjusting clocks and voltage based on user scenario

·         Clock and memory speed throttling

·         Voltage switching

·         Dynamic clock gating

·         Central thermal management – on-chip sensor monitors GPU temperature and triggers thermal actions as required

ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology

•      Scale up rendering performance and image quality with up to four GPUs

•      Integrated compositing engine

•       High performance bridge interconnect3