Microsoft DirectX 9.0 support
OpenGL 1.3+ support
Smartshader 2.0
Smoothvision Ver 2.1
Fullstream
Catalyst
Truform Ver. 2.0
Hyper Z 3.0+
Hydravision support







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Specifications
Graphics Technology
RADEON™ 9600 PRO, RADEON™ Visual Processing Unit (VPU)

Memory Configuration
128MB of double data rate SDRAM

Features
4 parallel rendering pipelines
2 parallel geometry engines
128-bit DDR memory interface (64-bit on RADEON™ 9600 SE)
AGP 8X support
SMARTSHADER™ 2.0 Programmable pixel and vertex shaders
16 textures per pass
Pixel shaders up to 160 instructions with 128-bit floating point precision
Vertex shaders up to 1024 instructions with flow control
Multiple render target support
Shadow volume rendering acceleration
High precision 10-bit per channel frame buffer support
Supports DirectX® 9.0 and the latest version of OpenGL®
SMOOTHVISION™ 2.1 2x/4x/6x full scene anti-aliasing modes
Adaptive algorithm with programmable sample patterns
2x/4x/8x/16x anisotropic filtering modes
Adaptive algorithm with bi-linear (performance) and tri-linear ( quality) options
HYPER Z™ III+ 3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with early Z test
Lossless Z-Buffer compression (up to 24:1)
Fast Z-Buffer Clear
Z cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering
TRUFORM™ 2.0 2nd generation N-Patch higher order surface support
Discrete and continuous tessellation levels per polygon
Displacement mapping