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The ATI All-in-Wonder 9700 Pro incorporates a 310MHz memory clock speed along with a 256-bit DDR memory interface. The engine clock speed is 325MHz and the RAMDAC is set at 400MHz. Peak memory bandwidth can reach a whopping 24.8 GB/sec. This is achieved thanks to the 256-bit DDR memory interface. This card makes use of the AGP8x technology when available and compatible with an AGP8x motherboard. AGP 8X allows for 2.0GB per second to be transferred over the AGP bus. This allows large volumes of texture and vertex data to be transferred from system memory to the video processing unit. This 2.0GB/sec can be compared against AGP 4X, which allowed for 1.0GB/sec to be transferred. AGP 2X and AGP 1X allowed for .5GB/sec and .25GB/sec of bandwidth, respectively. Below is an overview of the technology included with the Radeon 9700 graphics processor. SMARTSHADER II Smartshader 2.0 enables the experience of movie-quality effects into real time games and other interactive applications. TRUFORM II Truform 2.0 allows for a entirely new appearance in the realism of 3D characters, objects and images. It provides a smoother, more natural look. HYPERZ III This technology provides for reduced bandwidth usage along with faster graphics performance. It does this by avoiding certain unnecessary computations. SMOOTHVISION 2.0 Smootvision 2.0 allows for an overall image quality enhancement. Additionally, it improves the sampling and texture filtering, which will end up producing sharp, artifact-free images. VIDEOSHADER Videoshader involves enhancing real-time playback and video capture. It provides for a sharper and clearer TV and DVD playback. VIDEO IMMERSION II With the combination of the Videoshader this technology offers an advancement with video deblocking. The Fullstream Video De-blocking technology removes blocking artifacts from compressed or enlarged video content with full hardware acceleration, resulting in sharper image quality and no performance degradation. COBRA MPEG-2 ENGINE This advanced technology allows the card's core to do hardware MPEG-2 decoding and MPEG-2 encoding. This marks the only all-in-one card to offer some sort of hardware encoding, which lowers CPU utilization. This accounts for moving up to twenty percent of the encoding process into hardware. VIDEOSOAP This feature allows the card to run up to four filters on an incoming video stream to decrease noise or improve picture quality. The four filters include: blur, despeckle, sharpen, and combination. Those filters are passed over the video using the pixel shaders. They are also user adjustable, with preset options of course. Remember that only recorded video quality will increase and not live with this feature. THEATER 200 As many know, analog cable television is noisy, plain and simple. I just made the conversion to digital boxes in my home and the only thing standing in the way for getting digital television on the computer is the need for a more sophisticated digital tuner. Due to the increased video quality, I plan on connecting one of my digital boxes to the computer to see how much quality actually improves on the computer, but that will bypass the tuner provided with the video card. There was no visual difference between the tuner included on this card and the Rage Theater tuner included on previous all-in-wonder models. One thing of interest was the ability to connect the video card to a high definition television through the use of component outputs. We have heard from some that this option may not work successfully on all HDTV's. Next Page: More
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