Gigabyte GV-R9700 Manual - Page 4

English 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. PREFACE GV-R9700 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. GV-R9700 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 Visual Processing Unit (VPU) n Fully support DirectX® 9.0 n Supports the new AGP 8X standard n 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 GV-R9700 Graphics Accelerator - 4 -