Highly evolved and extremely programmable, RADEON® 9200 Series opens a stunning new world of immersive gameplay for PC enthusiasts. Powered by high-performance features including a Quad-pipe architecture, the future-friendly RADEON® 9200 Series of visual processors delivers a dazzling visual experience optimized to support the most compelling next-generation 3D gaming environments of today and tomorrow.
At-a-glance
- High performance architecture is supported by finely tuned features and extra horsepower to deliver barrier-free entertainment.
- Enjoy new levels for visual realism in graphics and video content courtesy of SMARTSHADER™, SMOOTHVISION™, FULLSTREAM™ and VIDEO IMMERSION™ technologies.
- Choose your own RADEON® 9200 adventure with highly customizable and expandable display features.
- Featuring CATALYST™, the industry's most stable 3D acceleration software.
Features
High Octane Pixel Power
- Four rendering pipelines for the fastest 3D gaming performance in its class.
- Full support for the AGP 8X standard doubles available bandwidth for more engaging characters and environments.
- 128MB of DDR memory
- Support for a 128MB frame buffer ensures long-term support for next-generation games and applications.
Redefining Realism
- SMARTSHADER™ supports Microsoft® DirectX® 8.1 feature sets, enhancing in-game performance and enabling more complex and realistic lighting effects.
- SMOOTHVISION™ delivers the sharpest, clearest textures without sacrificing frame rates.
- FULLSTREAM™ produces smoother-looking, higher quality streaming Internet content without putting extra strain on the CPU.
- VIDEO IMMERSION™ integrates features to provide unprecedented support for digital and high definition video.
Versatile Display Management
- HYDRAVISION™, ATI's multi-monitor management software, effortlessly organizes and controls display configurations for CRTs, screens and flat panel displays.
- Integrated display controllers to drive two monitors simultaneously.
- Enhance the gaming experience by utilizing independent resolutions and refresh rates.
- Featuring video output support
Only Products designed and built by ATI offer:
- Hassle-free manufacturers warranty
- Responsive and knowledgeable Customer Service Team
- Extensive online user resources and updates through ATI.com
- Feature-rich, frequently updated, ATI designed CATALYST™ software
Specifications
System Requirements
- Intel® Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron™, AMD® K6/Duron™/Athlon®/Athlon XP® or compatible with AGP 2X (3.3V), 4X (1.5V), 8X (0.8v) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (2X/4X/8X).
- 64MB of system memory
- Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
- DVD playback requires DVD drive
Graphics technology
- RADEON® 9200 graphics technology
Memory configuration
- 128MB of DDR memory
- RADEON® 9200SE available with 64MB or 128MB DDR
Operating system support
- Windows® XP
- Windows® 2000
- Windows® Me
- Windows® 98/98SE
Monitor support
- CRT monitor: 15-pin VGA connector
- RADEON® 9200 - VGA/RCA/S-video
Display support
- Register compatible with VGA
- Supports VESA PnP compatible displays
- BIOS compatible with VESA for super VGA
- DDC1/2b/2b+ monitor support
- VESA Display Power Management Support
- Separate horizontal and vertical synchronization at TTL levels
Features
- CHARISMA ENGINE™ II
- Four parallel rendering pipelines process up to 1.1 billion pixels per second
- High performance 2nd generation hardware transform & lighting engine
- Advanced vertex shader support for the latest programmable effects
- SMARTSHADER™ technology
- Full support for DirectX® 8.1 programmable pixel and vertex shaders in hardware
- 1.4 pixel shaders support up to 22 instructions and up to 6 textures per rendering pass
- vertex shaders support vertex programs up to 128 instructions
- Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® via extensions
- Programmable shaders provide enhanced 3D effects in over 100 existing and upcoming game titles
- SMOOTHVISION™
- Image quality enhancement features for Direct3D™ and OpenGL® applications
- Programmable full-scene anti-aliasing supports 2 to 6 samples with user selectable performance and quality modes
- Advanced anisotropic filtering supports 2 to 16 samples for high quality texture rendering with minimal performance impact
- HYPER Z™ II
- Lossless Z-Buffer Compression and Fast Z-Buffer Clear reduce memory bandwidth by up to 25%
- VIDEO FEATURES
- FULLSTREAM™ Hardware accelerated de-blocking of Internet video streams
- VIDEO IMMERSION™ II delivers industry-leading DVD playback
- Integrated MPEG-2 decode including iDCT and motion compensation for top quality DVD with lowest CPU usage
- Unique Adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing feature combines the best elements of the "bob" and "add-field" (weave) techniques
- YUV to RGB color space conversion
- Back-end scaler delivers top quality playback
- 4-tap horizontal and vertical filtering
- Upscaling and downscaling
- Filtered display of images up to 1920 pixels wide
- Hardware mirroring for flipping video images in video conferencing systems
- Supports 8-bit alpha blending and video keying for effective overlay of video and graphics
- DISPLAY FEATURES
- Dual integrated display controllers to drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates
- HYDRAVISION™ software provides complete control over multi-display configurations with a user-friendly interface
- 400MHz Dual integrated DACs with 10-bit per channel palette
- Integrated DVI-compliant 165MHz TMDS transmitter
- Integrated TV-Out support up to 1024x768 resolution
- GENERAL FEATURES
- Comprehensive 4X and 8X AGP support
- Windows® Logo Program compliant
- Optimized for Pentium® 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon™ 3Dnow!™ processor instructions
- Highly optimized 128-bit 2D engine with support for new Windows® XP GDI extensions
Warranty
3-year limited warranty