Back in March we explored the Radeon’s feature set, and in April we took a closer look at the chip itself. Today, we’ve got the high-end board based on ATI’s long awaited, T&L-capable GPU.

Graphics controller: Radeon GPU
RAMDAC: 350MHz
1.1GTexel/s - 366MPixel/s Theoretical Fill Rate
30 Million triangles/s
64MB DDR SDRAM
Optional VIVO
Optional DVI

3D Features

• Charisma Engine
• Pixel Tapestry
• Integrated Transformation, lighting, and clipping
• Twin cache architecture (pixel and texture caches)
• SuperScalar Rendering
• Full screen anti-aliasing
• Emboss, Dot Product 3, and Environment bump mapping
• Spherical, Dual-paraboloid, and Cubic environment mapping
• Fog effects, texture lighting, video textures, reflections, shadows, spotlights, LOD biasing, and texture morphing

Integrated IDCT and motion compensation
Adaptive de-interlacing
Alpha Sub-picture blending
HDTV-ready
Rage Theater analog companion chip for video encoding and decoding
Motion video capture (MPEG-1 and MPEG-2) at 720x576
Integrated TMDS transmitter