ATI Technologies X800 - 100-435317 Radeon XT Mac Edition, RADEON X800 User Manual

RADEON® X800 MAC
EDITION

User’s Guide

P/N 137-40818-10

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Table of Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

System Requirements 1
External Connections 1

Related Documentation 2
Multimedia Features 2
Viewing 3D Graphics 2
TV Out Support 3

ATI Displays Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Introduction 4

Open the ATI Displays control panel using
Mac OS® X 4
ATI Displays Control Panel 5
ATI Displays Preferences 6

Advanced Display Options 6

VERSAVISION™ Tab 7
Display Control Tab 8
Advanced DFP Tab 9

ATI HELP 9
Using DVD and QuickTime® Playback 10
Using Digital Flat Panel (DVI) 10

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Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Video Mode Table 12

Digital Flat Panel 13

Compliance Information 14

FCC Compliance Information 14
Industry Canada Compliance Statement 14

Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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CHAPTER 1:

Introduction

The RADEON® X800 MAC EDITION represents the next generation in
3D and video acceleration for your Power Macintosh® computer. It
includes flexible dual-display support for multiple com binations of CRT
and Digital Flat Panel monitors. Your new graphics accelerator provides:

• Flexible dual-display support enabling many combinations utilizing
DVI and ADC connectors, with or without VGA adapters, for
analog and digital displays.

• OpenGL® accelerator providing superior 3D rendering
performance and advanced imaging and filtering techniques.

• Industry leading DVD acceleration for High Bitrate, low CPU
usage, playback of the latest movies at any resolution.

• QuickTime® playback accelerator for full screen, full motion, DVD
quality video.

System Requirements

Hardware • A Power Macintosh® G5 computer with an AGP 8X

(AGP PRO) expansion slot.

• QuickTime® 6 or higher.

• Minimum 512MB of system memory.

Operating
System

Monitor • Compatible display devices: DVI or ADC style digital

• Mac OS® X version 10.3.5 or higher.

flat panal or VGA display (using the supplied DVI-to­VGA adapter).

External Connections

• DVI-I output.

• ADC output.

Note: Future references to Mac OS® X in this manual are intended
to be generic and inclusive of their respective versions of the
Macintosh® operating systems.

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Related Documentation

The README file summarizes the latest product revisions. Click the
README icon on the installation disk to open this file.

Help is available directly in ATI Displays.

Multimedia Features

Your RADEON® X800 MAC EDITION turns your Mac computer into a
3D and 2D graphics powerhouse. You can use your new graphics
accelerator card to:

• Enjoy true-color 32-bit 2D or 3D graphics up to 2560 x 2048.

• Watch full screen, full motion, DVD quality video using the
Apple® DVD Player or QuickTime® playback acceleration.

• Output your Mac’s display to digital flat panels and digital
projectors.

• Output to analog displays and projectors.

The following information describes these features in more detail and
suggests ways you can optimize your machine to get the most out of your
new card.

Viewing 3D Graphics

RADEON® X800 MAC EDITION’s 3D Acceleration features supports
the following advanced 3D graphics capabilities:

• 16 pixel pipeline architecture.

• 256 bit memory interface.

• Hardware accelerated vertex and pixel shaders.

• 76 billion texture pixels per second fill rate.

• 713 million vertices per second transform rate.

• 32 GB/Sec memory bandwidth.

• Full Scene Multi Sample Antialiasing.

• Bilinear, Trilinear, and Anisotropic filtering.

In addition, the RADEON® X800 MAC EDITION brings new and
exciting graphics technologies to the Macintosh® platform:

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SMOOTHVISION™ HD

is an antialiasing solution that raises the bar for
image quality using programmable multi-samp ling methods to post­process graphics before they are displayed.

SMARTSHADER™ HD is a new technology allows specialized high
precision graphics programs to be run on the RADEON® X800 MAC
EDITION VPU rather than the system processor. Developers can easily
create amazing new graphics effects while maintaining a high level of
performance.

HYPER Z™ HD makes Z-buffer bandwidth usage more efficient by
decreasing the amount of information sent to the frame buffer at higher
resolutions than ever before.

RADEON® X800 MAC 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® X800 MAC EDITION supports TV Out by using the
optional Apple® G5 TV-Out Adapter. For more information see your local
Apple® reseller.

CHAPTER 2:

ATI Displays Control Panel

Introduction

The ATI Displays control panel provides access to the advanced features
that the RADEON® X800 MAC EDITION has to offer.

Open the ATI Displays control panel using
Mac OS® X

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Open the Apple® System Preferences.

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Click the ATI Displays icon.

or

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Click the Hard Disk icon.

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Click Applications folder.

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Click Utilities folder.

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Click AT I Ut ili ties folder.

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Double-click ATI Displays.

For detailed instructions on how to set up and use these features, please
refer to ATI Help, which can be accessed through the ATI Displays control
panel.

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ATI Displays Control Panel

Display Info dialog shows the current display settings of the specific
monitor ATI Displays is running on.

Detect Displays button detects all connected displays. This feature is
useful when a second VGA monitor is connected to your graphics adapter.
Detect Displays removes the need to restart your computer.

Note: Your display will momentarily go blank while all connected
devices are being 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 display if no ATI product is installed in your computer.

The Support dialog provides an internet link to ATI Technologies’ web
site.

Click Create Apple® System Profiler Report button to generate a
detailed report of the computer’s installed hardware and software.