ATI 9550 User Guide - Page 9

HYPER Z™ II makes Z-buffer bandwidth usage more efficient by decreasing the amount of information sent to the frame buffer. CHARISMA ENGINE™ II is a transform and lighting technology which controls changing shapes and lighting while maintaining fast 3D game performance. PIXEL TAPESTRY™ II uses six independent texture units per rendering pipeline giving highly realistic and detailed 3D graphics. VIDEO IMMERSION™ II incorporates MPEG-2 decoding, adaptive de-interlacing, and frame rate conversion. RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION only displays 3D graphics in thousands and millions of colors. When you use 256 colors, there are too few colors to display complex 3D textures, so 3D acceleration is not supported. You can use the 3D Memory Monitor in the ATI Displays control panel, in Mac OS 9 only, to see how memory on your RADEON 9000 PRO MAC EDITION is allocated when displaying 3D graphics. This allows you to optimize 3D performance. 6