MODEL- 100-435906         VENDOR- A T I
    
FEATURES- Radeon HD2900 XT 512MB PCIe
       The ATI Radeon HD 2900 unleashes the power of DirectX 10 with 
        awesome performance, stunning visual effects, and more dynamic 
        interactivity than ever before. Surpass reality with easy CrossFire
        scalability, built-in HDMI, and 5.1 surround audio for an immersive 
        HD Gaming experience.
    Includes Radeon HD 2900 XT graphics card, CrossFire Bridge 
      Interconnect, DVI to HDMI adapter, DVI to VGA adapters (2), HDTV 
      Component out adapter, Video-in/Video-out adapter, Set-up CD, 
      Manuals, The Black Box game bundle voucher.
* Ultimate High Definition Gaming Technology
   Establish a new level of performance with our next-generation unified 
   shader engine with 320 unified stream processors, a 512-bit memory 
   interface, CrossFire, game physics, and built-in HDMI with multi-channel 
   5.1 surround audio -- technology designed for discerning gamers. 
* Leadership for Windows Vista
   Enjoy powerful graphics performance, improved stability, and an 
   immersive HD gaming experience for Windows Vista. ATI Catalyst software 
   is designed for quick setup of graphics, video, and multiple displays, 
   and automatically configures optimal system settings for lifelike 
   DirectX 10 gaming and the visually stunning Windows Aero user interface.
* Ring Bus Memory Controller 
   - Fully distributed design with 1024-bit internal ring bus for memory 
     reads and writes.
   - Optimized for high performance HDR (High Dynamic Range) rendering at 
     high display resolutions.
* Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture 
   - 320 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 80 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 
* Full support for Microsoft DirectX 10.0 
   - Shader Model 4.0 
   - Geometry Shaders 
   - Stream Output 
   - Integer and Bitwise Operations 
   - Alpha to Coverage 
   - Constant Buffers 
   - State Objects 
   - Texture Arrays 
* 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 (up to 8 samples per pixel) 
   - Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality 
   - Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling 
   - Temporal anti-aliasing 
   - Gamma correct 
   - Super AA (CrossFire 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 
   - Bicubic 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 
* CrossFire Multi-GPU Technology 
   - Scale up rendering performance and image quality with 2 or more GPUs 
   - Integrated compositing engine 
   - High performance dual channel interconnect 
* ATI Avivo HD Video and Display Platform 
   - 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 dual-link DVI display outputs 
      - Each supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all 
        resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-
        link DVI).
      - Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for 
        high resolution playback of protected content.
   - Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs 
      - Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions 
        up to 2048x1536.
   - HDMI output support 
      - Supports all display resolutions up to 1920x1080
      - Integrated HD audio controller with multi-channel (5.1) AC3 
        support, 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 
   - HD decode acceleration for H.264/AVC, VC-1, DivX and MPEG-2 video 
     formats.
      - Flawless DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray playback 
      - Motion compensation and IDCT (Inverse Discrete Cosine 
        Transformation).
   - HD video processing 
      - Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing 
      - De-blocking and noise reduction filtering 
      - Edge enhancement 
      - Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction) 
      - Bad edit correction 
      - High fidelity gamma correction, color correction, color space 
        conversion, and scaling.
   - 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 
* PCI Express x16 bus interface 
* OpenGL 2.0 support 
         
  -- SPECIFICATIONs ------------------------------------
INTERFACE/BUS- PCI Express, native x16 lane
MEMORY       - 512MB 512-bit 8-channel GDDR3/4 memory interface 
CHIPSET      - ATI RADEON HD2900XT
               700 million transistors on 80nm HS fabrication process 
               320 stream processing units 
CONNECTORs   - (2) Integrated dual-link DVI-I ports
               (1) S-Video port (YPrPb component output with adapter) 
                                (VGA with adapter) 
DISPLAY SUPPORT-
               Two Dual-Link DVI-I connectors for high-resolution digital 
                 displays.
               ATI Radeon DVI-I to HDMI2 with 5.1 audio (adapter) 
               HDTV Component (YPrPb) output (adapter) 
               VGA mode support on DVI-I outputs (adapter) 
               Drive two displays simultaneously with independent 
                 resolutions and refresh rates.
               TV output requires HDMI, component, S-video or composite 
                 cable (not included).
DISPLAY MODES- Digital Displays (Connected by DVI) 
                 - All Resolutions up to 3840x12400
               Analog Displays (Connected by VGA)
                 - All resolutions up to 2048x1536
               TV-out 
                 - SDTV (analog): 480i, 525i 
                 - HDTV (analog or digital): 1080p, 1080i, 720p, 480p, Any 
                   custom resolution.
               Note: Resolutions are limited by the performance of the 
                     attached monitor. 
O/S SUPPORT  - Windows XP/XP x64 Edition/Media Center Edition 2005/Vista
REQUIREMENTS - PCI Express based PC is required with one dual-width X16 
                 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard.
               Connection to 550 Watt (750 for CrossFire) or greater power 
                 supply with two 2x3-pin PCIe power connectors is required.
               For enhanced performance with ATI Overdrive, a power supply 
                 with one 2x3-pin and one 2x4-pin PCIe power connector is 
                 required.
               Certified power supplies are strongly recommended. Refer to 
                 http://ati.amd.com/CertifiedPSU for a list of Certified 
                 products.
               Certified system cases with good airflow and cooling are 
                 recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedcases 
                 for a list of Certified products.
               1GB of system memory 
               Installation software requires CD-ROM drive 
               DVD playback requires DVD drive 
               Blu-ray/HD DVD playback requires Blu-ray/HD DVD drive 
               To complete the CrossFire platform, a second ATI Radeon HD 
                 2900 graphics card, a CrossFire Ready motherboard and one 
                 CrossFire Bridge Interconnect cable per board (included) 
                 are required.
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