The ability of the RADEON™ VE DUAL DISPLAY EDITION to support dual displays is fully optimized with HydraVision™ Multiple Monitor Management Software making the RADEON™ VE DUAL DISPLAY EDITION the leading edge product for dual display.

Overview

At-a-glance

Powered by the RADEON™ VE graphics processor

HydraVision™ Multiple Monitor Management Software gives you flexible multi-display support to enable many combinations of VGA, DVI and TV

Up to 32MB of DDR memory

ATI's HYPER Z™ technology reduces memory bandwidth consumption resulting in improved performance

Incredible 3D graphics performance with ATI's PIXEL TAPESTRY™ 3D rendering engine

Supports DirectX® 7.0, DirectX 8.0® and OpenGL®

DVI interface with integrated TMDS for economical digital flat panel support

DVD playback with integrated motion compensation and iDCT

Analog video output support for both composite and S-Video

Supports 3D resolutions (32-bit color) up to 1920 x 1200

AGP universal bus (for AGP 2X/4X systems)

Feature

HydraVision™ multiple monitor management software

Leading-edge RADEON™ VE DUAL DISPLAY EDITION technology supports traditional CRT monitors, flat panel displays and TVs

Multi-task with MultiDesk - Create, name, and organize up to nine active multi-monitor desktop applications

Assign Hot Key shortcuts for the functions you use most often: moving active windows or applications, accessing controls on the fly, or opening applications - with a single keystroke

Set your applications to automatically open in your preferred position on your monitors using the Application Position Memory feature - eliminating the need to reset your settings every time you turn on your computer

Excellent 3D performance

RADEON™ VE DUAL DISPLAY EDITION , with powerful double data rate memory, delivers excellent 3D performance in its class

ATI's HYPER Z™ technology reduces memory bandwidth consumption resulting in improved performance

RADEON™ VE DUAL DISPLAY EDITION supports DirectX® 7.0, DirectX® 8.0, and Open GL® allowing for superior graphics and 3D textures that add a more natural look to game environments

Experience the incredible 3D and DVD of RADEON™ VE DUAL DISPLAY EDITION with flat panel displays to enjoy crisper and clearer images, true flat screen, reduced eyestrain and space savings

Crisp and clear 32-bit 3D resolutions up to 1900 x 1200

Reliable and proven technology

RADEON™ VE DUAL DISPLAY EDITION employs the award-winning technology from ATI's successful graphics accelerators for consistent, stable performance

Unified driver architecture allows for the use of one driver set across the RADEON™ family of products

Quality product from the world's largest manufacturer of graphics boards means reduced cost of ownership - less downtime, low power consumption, full technical support, and five-year warranty

Industry leading DVD playback

RADEON™ VE DUAL DISPLAY EDITION features ATI's VIDEO IMMERSION™ technology for industry leading video playback

Integrated motion compensation & iDCT enables multi-tasking during DVD playback - even on basic PCs

Process full-frame rate, full-screen DVD or MPEG-2 video

ATI's adaptive de-interlacing process gives the best possible DVD video quality by reducing feathered or blurred images

Built-in DVD playback saves the expense of buying a separate MPEG-2/DVD decoder card

Specifications

System requirements

Intel® Pentium™ 4/III/II Celeron™, AMD® K6/Athlon® or compatible with AGP 2X or AGP 2X/4X universal slot

Installation software requires CD-ROM drive

DVD playback requires DVD drive on PCs with an Intel® Pentium™ II processor (or equivalent) and 32MB of system memory

Graphics controller

RADEON™ VE graphics processor

Memory configurations

32MB DDR

Operating systems support

Windows® 98SE

Windows® Me

Windows® 2000

Windows® XP

Monitor support

CRT Monitor: 15 pin VGA connector

S-Video or composite connector

DVI-I (flat panel display) connector

Display support

Register compatible with VGA

BIOS compatible with VESA for super VGA

DDC1/2b/2b+ monitor support

VESA Display Power Management Support

Separate horizontal and vertical syncronization at TTL levels

3D acceleration features

HYPER Z™ technology

PIXEL TAPESTRY™ architecture

VIDEO IMMERSION™ technology

Twin Cache Architecture

Single-Pass Multi-texturing (3 textures per clock cycle)

True Color Rendering

Triangle Setup Engine

Texture Cache

Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering

Line & Edge Anti-aliasing

Texture Decompression support under DirectX® (DXTC) and OpenGL®

Specular Highlights

Perspectively Correct Texture Mapping

Mip-Mapping

Z-buffering and Double-buffering

Emboss, Dot Product 3 and Environment bump mapping

Spherical, Dual-Paraboloid and Cubic environment mapping

Full Screen Anti-Aliasing (FSAA)

Warranty

5-year limited warranty