RADEON 9250 PCI 256MB 

Radeon 9250 PCI 256MB

Product Code: S9250PCI256 Price: Check Latest MODEL- S9250PCI256 VENDOR- DIAMOND MULTIMEDIA FEATURES- Stealth Radeon 9250 The RADEON 9250 provides the perfect balance of advanced 3D graphics, an enhanced multimedia experience and multi-monitor support, at a great price point. At-a-glance: - Best performing graphics card in this price segment. - Superior image quality for a variety of digital applications, such as viewing digital photos, streaming video and gaming. - Digital video support for single and multi-displays on a VGA monitor, flat panel and TV screen. - A four pixel shader pipeline architecture and up to 256MB of DDR memory for fast action graphics. - Driven by ATI s CATALYST driver software suite for the most in stability and reliability. * 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. - 1.1 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. -- SPECIFICATIONs ---------