Overview

Featuring fast 3D graphics performance, coupled with sophisticated real-time visual effects, crisp image quality and cutting-edge video features, Radeon™ 9700 provides an amazing PC entertainment experience.

 

• First to fully support DirectX® 9.0
  With its SmartShader™ 2.0 technology, Radeon™ 9700 supports DirectX® 9.0 and OpenGL® functionality to give developers the freedom to create more complicated and realistic visual effects than ever before.
• First 8-pixel pipeline architecture
  Radeon™ 9700 was the first graphics technology capable of processing 8 pixels simultaneously - twice as many compared to any existing product. This highly optimized design provides top 3D performance for both Direct3D® and OpenGL® games and applications.
• 256-bit DDR memory interface
  The high-bandwidth memory interface of the Radeon™ 9700, utilizing HyperZ™ III bandwidth-conserving technology, removes a key performance bottleneck and provides end users with faster graphics performance.
• Support for AGP 8X specification
  Radeon™ 9700 supports the AGP 8X standard, which allows large volumes of texture and vertex data to be transferred faster from system memory to the chip (2.0 GB/sec).
• First to use pixel shaders to accelerate video
  With ATI's VideoShader™ technology, Radeon™ 9700 continues the tradition of providing industry-leading video and DVD playback. Radeon™ 9700 also offers FullStream™ - a technology that removes blocky artifacts from video and provides sharper image quality.