Diamond Amd Radeon 9250pci 256mb Ddr Video Graphics Card - 256mb - Dvi, S-Video - Opengl

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 ------------------------------------
INTERFACE/BUS- 32-bit PCI
MEMORY       - 256MB DDR
CHIPSET      - RADEON 9250 VPU
CONNECTORs   - (1) 15-pin VGA port  
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.
O/S SUPPORT  - Windows XP/2000/ME/98/98SE
DISPLAY MODES- Max. 2D Resolutions, colors and maximum refresh rates (Hz) 
                 in 256, 65K or 16.7M colors: 
                       640 x  480    200 Hz       1600 x 1200   120 Hz
                       800 x  600    200          1920 x 1080*  120
                      1024 x  768    200          1920 x 1200   100
                      1152 x  864    200          1920 x 1400    90
                      1280 x 1024    160          2048 x 1536    85
                      (*16:9 aspect ratio monitors are supported on 
                        1920x1080 and 848x480 on Windows XP, Windows 2000 
                        and Windows Me).
               Max. 3D Resolutions
                      65K colors  2048 x 1536
                    16.7M colors  2048 x 1536
REQUIREMENTS - Intel Pentium 4/III/II/Celeron, AMD K6/Duron/Athlon/Athlon 
                  XP or compatible with PCI bus. 
               64MB of system memory 
               Installation software requires CD-ROM drive 
               DVD playback requires DVD drive 
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