The Radeon 9600 Pro has been on the market for a few months already but its performance has been theoretically hindered when running on third party chipset-based platforms. Due to compatibility issues, the Radeon 9600 Pro cards were downgraded from AGP 8X to 4X. Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. decided to delay the launch of its Radeon 9600 Pro card, the GV-R96P128D, to fix this problem. The GV-R96P128D is the first and only Radeon 9600 Pro based graphics accelerator that supports the full range of Intel and AMD processor based platforms. This includes the latest Intel 875PE and 865G/P/PE, nVIDIA nForce2/nForce2 Ultra400, VIA KT400/KT600 and SiS 648/648FX/655 chipset based motherboards.
Based on the RV350 GPU, this graphics card features 128MB DDR SDRAM memory on a 128-bit DDR memory interface, 400/600MHz core/memory clock speeds, 4 pixel pipelines, and dual integrated display controllers. It comes with 15-pin
VGA, S-video or composite, and DVI-I connectors. Smartshader 2.1, Smoothvision 2.1, and HyperZ III+ technology support.
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Jul 25, 2003, 01:43 AM
