Diamond Multimedia 9550 Computer Hardware User Manual


 
Explore stunning new worlds of cinematic gameplay with the Stealth
®
S120 graphics
accelerator card, featuring ATI Radeon 9550 graphics technology! The Stealth
®
S120
delivers an unprecedented combination of power, performance, and Microsoft
®
DirectX
®
9
optimized support for the serious gamer. The Stealth S120’s Quad-pipe architecture and
high precision shaders will maximize your long-term entertainment value, pushing the
most compelling next-generation games to their limit!
Overview
Featuring
Featuring: RADEON
TM
9550
Memory: 128/256MB DDR
Slot Type: AGP
With: DVI/TV-Out
Stealth S120
Cinematic 2D/3D Graphics Card
System Requirements
•Intel
®
Pentium
®
4/III/Celeron
, AMD
®
Duron
/Athlon
®
/Athlon XP
®
or 
compatible with AGP 4X (1.5V), 8X (0.8v) or
Universal AGP 3.0 bus 
configuration (4X/8X).
•128MB of system memory
•Installation software requires
CD-ROM drive
•DVD playback requires DVD drive
•Windows
®
XP, 2000, or Me
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•4 parallel rendering pipelines
•2 parallel geometry engines
•SMARTSHADER
2.0
•Programmable pixel and vertex shaders
•Multiple render target support
•High precision 10-bit per channel
frame buffer support
•Supports DirectX
®
9.0 and the latest 
version of OpenGL
®
•SMOOTHVISION
2.1
•2x/4x/6x full scene anti-aliasing modes
•2x/4x/8x/16x anisotropic filtering modes
•Adaptive algorithm with bi-linear 
(performance) and tri-linear (quality) 
options
•HYPER Z
III+
•Lossless Z-Buffer compression
(up to 24:1)
•Fast Z-Buffer Clear
•TRUFORM
2.0
•2nd generation N-Patch higher order 
surface support
•Discrete and continuous tessellation 
levels per polygon
•VIDEOSHADER
•Seamless integration of pixel shaders
with video
•FULLSTREAM
video de-blocking 
technology
•Noise removal filtering for captured video
•MPEG-2 decoding with motion 
compensation, iDCT and color space 
conversion
•All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
•YPrPb component output*
•Dual integrated display controllers
•Dual integrated 10-bit per channel
400 MHz DACs
•Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter
(DVI 1.0 compliant)
•Integrated TV Output support up to 
1024x768 resolution
•Optimized for Pentium
®
4 SSE2 and
AMD Athlon
3Dnow!
S120AGP