ATI All-In-Wonder 9700 PRO Graphics Card

Overview

Radeon® 9700 PRO is the most advanced graphics board in its category, featuring ATI’s Radeon 9700 PRO Visual Processing Unit (GPU), supporting AGP design specifications. Through a combination of incredible 3D rendering performance, sophisticated real-time visual effects, crisp image quality, processing speed, and impressive video features, it provides an amazing PC entertainment experience.

At-a-glance:

• Fastest* 3D gaming performance with next-generation GPU architecture
• Complete DirectX® 9.0 support for unprecedented realism and sophisticated visual effects
• SmoothVision™ 2.0 technology provides new levels of image quality with advanced full-scene anti-aliasing (FSAA) and anisotropic filtering
• Revolutionary new video features including VideoShader™ and FullStream™ technologies
• Featuring Catalyst™ – – ATI’s industry-leading software suite with frequently scheduled free updates providing additional features and performance over the product’s lifetime

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.

Radeon 9700 Series Specifications

System Requirements

• Radeon 9700 PRO requires connection to your PC’s internal power supply for operation. Consult your system builder or OEM to ensure your system has an adequate power supply. Otherwise ATI recommends a 300 watt power supply or greater to ensure normal system operation where a number of other internal devices are installed.
• Intel® Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron™, AMD® K6/Duron™/Athlon®/Athlon XP® or compatible with AGP 2X (3.3v), 4X (1.5V), 8X (0.8v) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (2X/4X/8X).
• 128MB of system memory
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
• DVD playback requires DVD drive

Graphics Technology

• Radeon® 9700 PRO Visual Processing Unit (GPU)

Memory Configuration

• 128MB of double data rate SDRAM

Operating Systems Support

• Windows® XP
• Windows® 2000
• Windows® Me

Display Support

• VGA connector for analog CRT
• S-video or composite connector for TV / VCR
• DVI-I connector for digital CRT or flat panel
• Independent resolutions and refresh rates for any two connected displays

Features

• Eight parallel rendering pipelines
• Four parallel geometry engines
• 256-bit DDR memory interface
• AGP 8X support
• SmartShader™ 2.0
  • Programmable pixel and vertex shaders
  • 16 textures per pass
  • Pixel shaders up to 160 instructions with 128-bit floating point precision
  • Vertex shaders up to 1024 instructions with flow control
  • Multiple render target support
  • Shadow volume rendering acceleration
  • High precision 10-bit per channel frame buffer support
  • Supports DirectX® 9.0 and the latest version of OpenGL®
• SmoothVision™ 2.0
  • 2x/4x/6x full scene anti-aliasing modes
    • Adaptive algorithm with programmable sample patterns
  • 2x/4x/8x/16x anisotropic filtering modes
    • Adaptive algorithm with bi-linear (performance) and tri-linear (quality) options
• HYPER Z™ III
  • 3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with early Z test
  • Lossless Z-Buffer compression (up to 24:1)
  • Fast Z-Buffer Clear
• TruForm™ 2.0
  • 2^nd generation N-Patch higher order surface support
  • Discrete and continuous tessellation levels per polygon
  • Displacement mapping
• 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
• Adaptive de-interlacing and frame rate conversion
• 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 1024×768 resolution
• Optimized for Pentium® 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon™ 3Dnow!
• PC 2002 compliant

Warranty

• 3-year limited warranty

Mode Tables

2D DISPLAY MODES
Resolutions, colors and maximum refresh rates (Hz) in 256, 65K or 16.7M colors

*16:9 aspect ratio monitors are supported on 1920×1080 and 848×480 on Windows® XP, Windows® 2000 and Windows® ME. The complete list of resolutions depends on the driver version and operating system. NOTE: that resolutions are limited by the performance of the attached monitor.

MAXIMUM 3D RESOLUTIONS
(with 128MB Frame Buffer)

ATI announces the new ALL-IN-WONDER® 9700 PRO

World’s fastest multimedia graphics card features dual TV tuner support and
ATI’s fastest DirectX® 9.0 graphics

Monday, September 30, 2002 – MARKHAM, Ontario – Multimedia on the PC rises to a new level with today’s announcement from ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT) of the ALL-IN-WONDER® 9700 PRO. The world’s fastest multimedia graphics card joins the award-winning ALL-IN-WONDER® family to offer mulTView™ for dual TV tuner support and 128MB of Double Data Rate (DDR) memory plus more – powered by the new RADEON™ 9700 PRO VPU (visual processor unit) graphics chip with cutting edge 2D and 3D graphics performance.

ATI’s new flagship multimedia video card, ALL-IN-WONDER 9700 PRO, will be available this fall for less than USD$500 and will complement the currently shipping ALL-IN-WONDER® RADEON™ 8500DV at USD$199 and the value-priced ALL-IN-WONDER® RADEON™ 7500 at USD$149.

“With dual TV tuner support, we’ve delivered a major customer-requested feature,” said Godfrey Cheng, Director of Marketing, Multimedia Products, ATI Technologies Inc. “ALL-IN-WONDER 9700 PRO delivers many great new features that elevate the Home Theater PC to a brand new level. ATI continues to pack the most excitement into one easily installable solution for maximum performance, features and stability – no other multimedia video card can deliver this much entertainment.”

“ALL-IN-WONDER 9700 PRO is designed around the critically acclaimed RADEON 9700 PRO – the industry’s first visual processing unit – to deliver top performance, even for hard-core gamers,” said Blair Birmingham, Group Product Manager, TV PC Multimedia Products, ATI Technologies Inc. “This groundbreaking graphics chip includes Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 support, our VIDEOSHADER™ engine and video compression for an extremely high quality video experience. We created ALL-IN-WONDER 9700 PRO for the customer who wants to get the best multimedia experience out of their computer for gaming, video editing and enhanced TV viewing.

“We’re also delivering on the high resolution visual experience in the family room by providing Component Output capabilities (YPrPb) with this product. ALL-IN-WONDER 9700 PRO enables unique support for a non-interlaced display in the family room for DVD, personal video recording (PVR), gaming and other Windows-based applications.”

ALL-IN-WONDER 9700 PRO offers the following features:

• ATI’s MULTIMEDIA CENTER 8.0 software – In addition to a full range of critically-acclaimed multimedia functions such as a free integrated program guide (North America only) from Gemstar-TV Guide’s GUIDE Plus+™ and enhanced TV-ON-DEMAND™ PVR for instant replays, pausing live TV or recording live broadcasts for later viewing, new software enhancements include:
  • MulTView – Enables dual TV tuner capabilities such as Picture-in-Picture when combined with ATI-TV WONDER™ or TV WONDER™ VE;
  • THRUVIEW™ – Allows for translucent viewing of TV, DVD (digital versatile disk) and video file playback;
  • VIDEOSOAP™ – Delivers advanced filtering to reduce noise, improve sharpness and soften focus as desired to provide the highest quality video compression for PVR and personal video editing functions;
  • FULLSTREAM™ – Uses pixel shaders, based on innovative technology in RADEON 9700 PRO, to remove blocky artifacts from streaming video and provides sharper image quality and greater scalability;
  • Closed Caption Search within TV-ON-DEMAND™ complements the popular “Hotwords” functionality with the PVR allowing the computer to search for content of interest whether it happens in the future or the recent past;
• Pinnacle Studio 8 SE – Offers powerful features for consumer video editing;
• Matchware Mediator 7 – Enables the ability to combine text, pictures, videos and sounds to build stunning presentations in a few minutes;
• ATI’s THEATER™ 200 – Provides exceptional video and stereo audio quality viewing during live TV and video input and capture – all based on technologies from ATI’s digital television research and development;
• VIDEOSHADER™ – Uses programmable pixel shader technology to accelerate video processing and provide better-looking visuals;
• REMOTE WONDER™ – Offers remote control via RF (radio frequency) for instant easy access to all the multimedia features (TV, video, DVD – and more) from any other room in the house or office (requires USB – universal serial bus) – it’s the 30-foot User Interface in the palm of your hand;
• RADEON™ 9700 PRO VPU and 128MB (megabyte) DDR memory – Designed for advanced 3D graphics and gaming;
• Component Video output via a YprPb adapter (available in North America only) – Connects to the big screen TV in the family room at high resolution with optimized viewing modes;
• Stereo TV-tuner with 125 channels;
• Analog video capture and editing in MPEG-2 format at up to 720×480 30 frames-per-second resolution;
• DVD video playback with Dolby® AC-3 digital audio;
• Support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 and OpenGL®; and,
• Backed by quality ATI customer support and a 3-year limited warranty, ALL-IN-WONDER 9700 PRO supports Windows® XP, Windows® 2000, Windows® Me, and Windows® 98/98 SE (Windows Me driver can be installed on Windows 98/98SE).