Gigabyte GV-R9700 PRO Manual - Page 6

English 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. PREFACE R9700 PRO features world's first 8-pipeline architecture for twice the rendering power, 128MB of 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. R9700 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. 1.2. KEY FEATURES n Powered by RADEON™ 9700 PRO Visual Processing Unit (VPU) n First to fully support DirectX® 9.0 n Supports the new AGP 8X standard n First 8-pixel pipeline architecture n All new 256-bit memory interface n 128MB DDR memory accelerates the latest 3D games n First to use pixel shaders to accelerate video n DVI-I and TV-Out connector supported R9700 PRO Graphics Accelerator - 4 -