RADEON™ X300 Features and Specifications

SMARTSHADER™ 2.0
• SMARTSHADER™ defines the level of realism in latest 2D/3D games and applications
• Complete hardware-accelerated Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shader support
• Full hardware support for OpenGL® 2.0

SMOOTHVISION™ 2.1
• SMARTSHADERM™ improves image quality by smoothing jagged edges, improving blurriness and refining background details during on-screen motion and at lower resolutions
• SMOOTHVISION™ settings are user configurable in ATI CATALYST™ Control Panel:
• 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing (AA) modes
- Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns and entroid sampling
- Loss-less Color Compression (up to 6:1) at all resolutions
• 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering (AF) modes
- Up to 128-tap texture filtering
- Adaptive algorithm with bilinear (performance) and trilinear (quality) options.

HYPER Z™ III
• HYPER Z™ ensures optimal hardware performance bydiscarding irrelevant object data that is not visible to end-user on their display.
• Leverages key features from ATi's third generation HYPER Z™ III technology that conserves video memory bandwidth for improved performance in demanding 2D/3D games and applications
• Lossless Z-Buffer Compression (up to 48:1)
• Fast Z-Buffer Clear
• Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering

VIDEOSHADER™
• Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
• FULLSTREAM™ video de-blocking technology for Real, DivX, and WMV9 formats
• VIDEOSOAP™ noise removal filtering for captured video
• MPEG 1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration
• DXVA Support
• Hardware Motion Compensation, iDCT, DCT and color space conversion
• Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion (temporal filtering)

ADDITIONAL FEATURES
• Dual integrated display controllers
• Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400 MAz DACs
• Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI 1.0 / HDMI compliant and HDCP ready)
• Windows® Logo Program compliant
• ATI CATALYST™ Software Suite

OTHERS
• Operating Systems Support Windows® XP / 2000
• Power supply of 350 (and up) watt is highly recommended for system stability.
• 2D Display Modes: Resolutions, colors and maximum refresh rates(Hz) in 256, 65K or 16.7M colors

Bundle MSI developed software
• MSI Live Update Series ( Live VGA BIOS & Live VGA Driver)
- Automatically online download & update VGA BIOS & Drivers, reduce the risk of getting the wrong files, and never have the trouble on web site searching.
• 3D! Turbo Experience
- Fancy, Game-looking HTML/Flash Based Tool
- New revolution! MSI is the worldwide first company to propose the advantage of HTML/Flash based utilities. By leading the new software trend, MSI devotes to serve the users a fancy, game- looking utility. Are you ready for the new experience now?
• GoodMen
Automatically release the system memory space, reduce the risk of system hang-up.
• LockBox
- Instantly enter the data lock mode when you must leave your system for a while.
• WMIinfor
- Automatically list the detail system configuration, it helpful for engineering service people.
• ThinSoft BeTwin
• MSI Secure DOC
• E-Color
• Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Trend Micro PC-Cillin 2000
• Microsoft® DirectX 8.1