ATI RADEONX1900 User Guide
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RADEON® X1900 G5 MAC EDITION User's Guide P/N 137-41055-10 ATI - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 2
to change without notice. Product may not be exactly as shown in diagrams. Reproduction of this manual, or parts thereof, in any form, without the express written permission of ATI Technologies Inc. is strictly prohibited. Disclaimer While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 3
Graphics 2 TV Out Support 3 ATI Displays Control Panel 5 Introduction 5 Open the ATI Displays control panel 5 ATI Displays Control Panel 6 ATI a Preset 12 ATI Displays Help 13 Using QuickTime® Playback 13 Using Digital Flat Panel (DVI) 13 Specifications 15 Video Mode Table 15 - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 4
iv Index 35 - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 5
RADEON® X1900 G5 MAC EDITION represents the next generation in 3D and video acceleration for your Power Macintosh® computer. It includes flexible dual-display support for multiple combinations of CRT and Digital Flat Panel monitors. Your new graphics to Mac OS® X in this manual are intended to - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 6
in ATI Displays. Multimedia Features Your RADEON® X1900 G5 MAC EDITION turns your Mac computer into a 3D and 2D graphics powerhouse. Use your new graphics accelerator card to: • Enjoy true-color 32-bit 2D or 3D graphics up to 2560 x 1600. • Watch full screen, full motion, DVD quality video using - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 7
EDITION only displays 3D graphics in thousands and millions of colors. When you set your display to 256 colors, this will affect Finder™, OpenGL®, Quartz® Extreme, and QuickTime® acceleration. TV Out Support The RADEON® X1900 G5 MAC EDITION supports TV Out by using the optional Apple® DVI-to-Video - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 8
4 TV Out Support - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 9
control panel provides access to the advanced features that the RADEON® X1900 G5 MAC EDITION has to offer. Open the ATI Displays control panel 1 Open the Apple® System Preferences. 2 Click the ATI Displays icon. or 1 Click the Hard Disk icon. 2 Open Applications folder. 3 Open Utilities folder - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 10
detected. The Profile dialog presents information on the specific Radeon® graphics card and video driver installed in your computer. Even if ATI Displays cannot identify your ATI product it will still provide display configuration, driver version and other related information. A warning dialog will - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 11
ATI Displays Preferences 7 ATI Displays Preferences From the ATI Displays drop down menu you can set the Preferences for the ATI Displays control panel. Here you can configure how the ATI Displays control panel starts and exits. - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 12
the full feature set of other ATI 2D and 3D technologies. ATI's hardware accelerated display rotation and scaling technology provides rotation left or right button will cause the display to refresh and rotate. Full 3D support is maintained regardless of rotation selected. Use the Default button to - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 13
Advanced Display Options 9 Display Scaling Use this option to control the display output size without affecting the desktop resolution of your display. If the computer desktop, toolbar or dock exceeds the physical size of your display select Standard Underscan (87%) in the Desktop Size drop down - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 14
Operation, when using a dual display video card, causes all display modes to appear as a single list of supported resolutions in the Apple® Displays Properties by default. Enable ATI "Valid" and "Safe" flags in mode list, when enabled, lets the video card to determine which video modes are valid and - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 15
intended to support Digital Flat Panels (DFP) only. Enable ATI Hardware Scaler on non-Apple panels can be used with flat panels with fixed resolutions. Use this feature to change video modes using the ATI Scaler. Enable frequency reduction on high resolution displays may correct problems concerning - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 16
OpenGL® presets that can be applied to any application. You can also create your own unique preset. To select a Preset: 1 Click the 3D icon in ATI Displays. 2 Select the desired preset from the Preset drop-down menu. To create a new preset: 1 Click the 3D icon in - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 17
in thousands or millions of colors, the ATI card utilizes the 3D engine's capabilities to scale and accelerate playback. When scaling video, the RADEON® X1900 G5 MAC EDITION uses special hardware techniques (bilinear filtering) to enhance the video quality instead of just repeating pixels. Using - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 18
your Mac, locate your ATI Graphics Accelerator. 2 Attach one end of your DVI cable to the DVI connector on your RADEON® X1900 G5 MAC EDITION and the other end to the DVI connector on your DVI flat panel. 1 Dual Link DVI Monitor Port (supports TV-OUT using an Apple dongle) 2 Video Out Connector - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 19
Specifications Video Mode Table The video mode table below lists the refresh rates capabilities for the supported resolutions on your RADEON® X1900 G5 MAC EDITION. Please consult your monitor's specifications to determine which resolutions are available with your display. Supported Modes Display - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 20
16 Video Mode Table Supported Modes Display Resolution 1920 X 1200 1920 X 1440 2048 X 1152 2048 X 1280 2048 X 1536 Maximum Refresh 100 90 100 100 85 The minimum refresh rate for - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 21
. FCC Compliance Information This RADEON® product complies with FCC Rules used in accordance with manufacturer's instructions, may cause harmful interference to connection of the monitor to the graphics card is required to ensure compliance with FCC ATI Research Inc. 62 Forest Street. Marlborough, MA - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 22
18 Compliance Information Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive Compliance This product was manufactured by ATI Technologies Inc. - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 23
for "three dimensional," referring to computer graphics that appear to have volume and twodimensional display. 3Dc™ An ATI hardware-based compression technology that reduces the size of type of video connection found only with certain Apple displays. In addition to carrying the video signal to - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 24
(AGP) is a slot on the computer motherboard designed specifically for 3D graphics cards. AGP runs 3D images much more smoothly and quickly than was previously possible with PCI video cards; AGP runs at several times the bus speed of PCI and employs sideband addressing, so multiple data transfers - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 25
type of offscreen memory used to provide smooth video and 2D graphics acceleration. This technique uses two frame buffers, enlarged it would start to look "blocky" and less distinct. This is also a problem for computer-generated images, especially for surface details. Bit Depth Refers to the number - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 26
Buffer A name referring to portions of on-board video memory. One large buffer is always used to values of each color component are graphically represented by a corresponding color curve. represents the output value (the color value that the display driver will write to the screen). A value of 0 - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 27
values that are not red or blue. DVDs are encoded using component video, so display devices will provide enhanced playback when this type of connection strengths in order to produce a colored image. Dithering A computer graphics technique that takes advantage of the human eye's tendency to mix - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 28
and DVI-I (integrated, capable of either analog or digital). It supports high-bandwidth video signals over 160 Hz, so it is most often used for the viewer. Frame Buffer The portion of the memory buffer on the graphics card used to store the image being displayed. All rendering processes have been - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 29
to the rate at which the graphic processor can render new screens per second. Higher rates equals better, more naturalistic performance for such things as games set in a 3D environment. Sometimes abbreviated to "fps." FullStream™ FullStream™ delivers smooth, high-quality video when viewing real-time - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 30
and speed the resulting visual data and Fast Z-Clear, which updates only those pixels whose values have changed. HyperZ™ II HyperZ™ II technology improves memory bandwidth efficiency by ensuring that only those pixels contained within a 3D polygon that are visible are the ones that are rendered - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 31
by optimizing the storage of buffer regions in the graphics card's memory buffer. Other applications are typically not adversely affected when this is ) and in Japan. It draws a total of 525 vertical interlaced frames of video at a refresh rate of 60 Hz, making it relatively flicker-free. The - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 32
Windows®, Mac OS® X, and various forms of Unix, including Linux®. PAL An acronym for "Phase Alternating Line", the name for a video broadcast standard as built-in graphical processors) and peripherals that fit into an expansion card slot, such as a separate graphics card. PCI replaced the older ISA - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 33
™ Pixel Tapestry™ is a graphics architecture that includes multiple independent texture units for each rendering pipeline. This technology makes 3D surfaces look more columns. The default VGA resolution of many video cards is capable of displaying 640 rows of pixels by 480 columns. The typical - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 34
SDTV broadcasts are either interlaced (480i) or use progressive scan (480p), the latter method providing the best overall image quality. SECAM An analog color video signal that originated in France, and is used in many other countries, including (but not limited to) much of Eastern Europe, parts of - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 35
31 SmartShader™ SmartShader™ is ATI's patented shader technology, providing custom transform and lighting effects for vertex SmoothVision™ SmoothVision™ supports high-quality and high-performance anti-aliasing modes, both of which are required for creating high-quality 3D computer graphics. Both of - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 36
and clearer pictures at higher frame rates, and the new 3Dc™ compression technology makes it possible to display higher polygon counts for 3D rendered objects. S-Video Short for "Separate Video," S-Video is a type of analog video interface that produces a higher-quality signal compared to composite - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 37
180 degrees, while maintaining the full feature set of other ATI 2D and 3D technologies, such as SmoothVision™. VersaVision™ works with single or , fog, and point size data. A vertex shader is a graphics processing function that manipulates these values, producing such things as more realistic - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 38
in three rows. The "VGA" is an acronym for "Video Graphics Array," which is also the name for the video resolution mode of 640x480 pixels, the lowest standard resolution supported by virtually all video cards. YPbPr A type of analog composite video signal that splits and compresses the standard Red - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 39
ratio) 20, 30 480i 30 480p 30 5:4 (aspect ratio) 20 A Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) 20, 28 Add an Application Profile 12 Advanced Display Options 8 Aspect Ratio 20 ATI Displays 5, 11, 12 ATI Displays Control Panel 6 ATI Displays Help 13 ATI Displays Preferences 7 ATI Guide accessing 13 description - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 40
Report 6 CRT 23, 24, 30 D Depth Buffer 26 Detect Displays 6 Digital Video Interface 24 Display Control Tab 10 Display Info 6 Display Scaling 9 Dithering 23 Dock 30 DVD 23, 32 DVI 19 DVI-A 24 DVI-D 24 DVI-I 24 E Enable ATI "Valid" and "Safe" 10 Enable GTF Modes for CRT 10 Enable Hot Plug Detection 10 - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 41
37 Gouraud Shading 24, 25 Graphic Card features 2 Graphical Processor Unit (GPU) 31 H Hierarchical Z- Luminance 32, 34 M Mac OS X 28 Mipmapping 27 Monitor Resolution 2D video mode table 15 Motherboard 20 Multimedia Features 2 N NTSC 27, 29 O Offscreen Memory 28 Open the ATI Displays 5 OpenGL 11, - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 42
technology 31 Shadow mask 30 SmartShader 31 SmartShader HD 31 SMARTSHADER™ 3 SmoothVision 31 SmoothVision 2.0 31 SmoothVision 2.1 32 SmoothVision HD 32 SMOOTHVISION™ 3 Software ATI Guide 13 Specular highlight 32 Standard Definition Television (SDTV) 30 Support dialog 6 Supported Modes 15 S-Video - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 43
23, 32 VersaVision 8, 33 Vertex shader 31, 33 Vertical refresh rate 29 Vertical Sync 13 VGA 29 VGA connector 34 Video 19 Video Card features 2 Video Graphics Array 34 Video Memory 22 Viewing 3D Graphics 2 W Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Compliance 18 Windows 28 X XGA 30 Y Y/C 32 - ATI RADEONX1900 | User Guide - Page 44
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RADEON® X1900 G5 MAC
EDITION
User’s Guide
P/N 137-41055-10