Gigabyte GV-R98P128D Manual - Page 4

English 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. PREFACE GV-R98P128D features world's first 8-pipeline architecture for twice the rendering power, 128MB of memory to accelerate latest 3D games and new SMARTSHADER™ 2.1 technology supporting DirectX® 9 and the latest OpenGL® functionality to give developers the freedom to create more complicated and realistic visual effects than ever before. GV-R98P128D 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 „ Powered by RADEON™ 9800 PRO Visual Processing Unit (VPU) „ First to fully support DirectX® 9.0 „ Supports the new AGP 8X standard „ First 8-pixel pipeline architecture „ All new 256-bit memory interface „ 128MB DDR memory accelerates the latest 3D games „ First to use pixel shaders to accelerate video „ DVI-I and TV-Out connector supported GV-R98P128D Graphics Accelerator - 4 -