| The_Doc |    Posted 7th Oct 2005 10:30pm | 
	
		| Stargate Worlds L4Y Member
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  | Manged to buy my new graphics card today, got a 256MB ATi Radeon X800 PCI Express Graphics. 
 Specifications
 
 - 12 parallel pixel pipelines
 - 6 parallel vertex processing engines
 - 160 million transistors on 0.11 micron fabrication process
 - 256-bit quad-channel GDDR1 memory interface
 - PCI Express x16 lane native support
 
 SMARTSHADER HD
 
 - Support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware
 - DirectX 9.0 vertex shaders
 - Vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with flow control
 - Single cycle trigonometric operations (SIN & COS)
 - Direct X 9.0 Extended pixel shaders
 - Up to 1,536 instructions and 16 textures per rendering pass
 - 32 temporary and constant registers
 - Facing register for two-sided lighting
 - 128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point colour formats
 - Multiple render target (MRT) support
 - Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL
 
 Got it for £120, pretty good if you ask me
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