Technical Details for HIS Excalibur Radeon 9700 Pro

HIS Excalibur Radeon 9700 Pro ... featuring ATI's RADEON 9700 PRO Visual Processing Unit (VPU). Through a combination of incredible 3D rendering performance, sophisticated real-time visual effects, unsurpassed image quality and cutting-edge video features, it takes the PC entertainment experience to a totally new level.

Excalibur RADEON 9700 PRO features world's first 8-pipeline architecture for twice the rendering power, 128MB of DDR memory to accelerate latest 3D games and new SMARTSHADER 2.0 technology supporting DirectX 9.0 and the latest OpenGL functionality to give developers the freedom to create more complicated and realistic visual effects than ever before.

Excalibur RADEON 9700 PRO supports the new AGP 8X standard, which allows large volumes of texture and vertex data to be transferred faster from system memory to the chip. With ATI's new VIDEOSHADER technology, Excalibur RADEON 9700 PRO continues the tradition of providing industry-leading video and DVD playback and also offers FULLSTREAM - a new technology that removes blocky artifacts from video and provides sharper image quality.