Diamond 9250 256MB DDR Graphics Accelerator Card

Provided by Buzzillions.com

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 Hz1600 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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