RADEON™ Mac Edition
At a Glance
- Powered by the RADEON™ graphics processing unit (GPU)
- CHARISMA ENGINE™; Integrated Transform, Clipping and Lighting (TCL)
- 32MB of powerful double data rate (DDR) memory
- DVI for Digital Flat Panel and VGA support
- Video-output for TV out display
- Full OpenGL®, QuickDraw™ 3D, and QuickTime™ support
- Configurations for either AGP 2X systems or PCI(66MHz or 33MHz)
Powered by the RADEON™ GPU
RADEON™ was designed to offer discerning Mac users such as high-end content creators and gaming enthusiasts the most advanced 3D graphics processing available. 32MB of powerful Double Data Rate(DDR) SDRAM memory, give you eye-popping photo-realism. With the most advanced set of 3D capabilities RADEON™ brings games to life with, fluid movement, rich textures and photo-realistic images, without compromising speed.
Awesome 3D performance!
RADEON™ uses ATI’s CHARISMA ENGINE™ a transform and lighting unit, for faster frame rates and extensive graphics texture processing – mandatory for today’s ultimate 3D game experience. With incredible textures, color depths, and up to 30 million triangles/second, animation is life-like and fluid. RADEON™ gives your Mac® the graphics stamina for the best 3D gaming performance with incredible visual quality.
Support for Digital Flat Panel and VGA displays
RADEON™ the ultimate in display flexibility, supporting both digital flat panels and VGA monitors. Resolutions up to 1920×1440, including support for wide screen formats result in crisper clearer images.
Integrated Video Output Functionality
Connect your Mac to a large screen TV – experience big-screen gaming action or display your presentations to a crowd on a large screen. See the difference of no-compromise visual quality.
System Requirements
- AGP or PCI(66MHz or 33MHz) – capable Macintosh
- Mac® OS 9.x
- QuickTime™ 4.x or higher
- QuickDraw® 3D 1.6 or later
- Open GL®
Graphics Controller
- RADEONTM graphics engine
- Clock speed: 166/166Mhz
Memory Configurations
- 32MB Double Data Rate (DDR)
Operating Systems Support
- Mac OS 9.0 or higher
Monitor Support
- Digital flat panel (DVI)
- VGA
3D Acceleration Features
- Integrated Transformation, Clipping and Lighting
- CHARISMA ENGINETM
- PIXEL TAPESTRYTM Architecture
- Twin Cache Architecture
- Texture Cache
- Superscalar Rendering
- Single-Pass Multi-texturing
- True Color Rendering
- Triangle Setup Engine
- Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering
- Line & Edge Anti-aliasing
- Specular Highlights
- Perspectively Correct Texture Mapping
- Mip-Mapping
- Z-buffering and Double-buffering
- Spherical, Dual-Paraboloid and Cubic environment mapping
- Fog effects, texture lighting, video textures, reflections, shadows, spotlights, LOD biasing and texture morphing
WARRANTY
5-year limited warranty
2D Display Modes: Resolutions, Colors and Maximum Refresh Rates (Hz):
| Resolution | |||||||
| 256 colors (8-bit) | |||||||
| 65K Colors (16-bit) | |||||||
| 16.7M Colors (32-bit) |
| 2D Display Modes: Resolutions, Colors and Maximum Refresh Rates (Hz): | ||||||||
| Resolution | 960 | 1024 | 1024 | 1200 | 1792x 1344 | 1856x 1392 | 1920x 1200 | 1920x 1440 |
| 256 colors (8-bit) | ||||||||
| 65K Colors (16-bit) | ||||||||
| 16.7M Colors (32-bit) | ||||||||
Maximum 3D Resolutions (Hz)
32MB Frame Buffer Resolutions | |
| 65K Colors | |
| 16.7M Colors |
Maximum 3D resolution and colors supported with specified memory using double buffered setting and z-buffer. 2D & 3D resolution and refresh rates are subject to change.
