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ATI

RADEON® X1900 G5 MAC
EDITION

User’s Guide

P/N 137-41055-10

Summary of Contents for RADEON X1900 G5

Page 1: ...ATI RADEON X1900 G5 MAC EDITION User s Guide P N 137 41055 10...

Page 2: ...y with respect to the operation or use of ATI hardware software or other products and documentation described herein for any act or omission of ATI concerning such products or this documentation for a...

Page 3: ...ptions 8 VersaVision Tab 8 Display Scaling 9 Display Control Tab 10 Advanced DFP Tab 11 3D OpenGL Overrides 11 Add an Application Profile 12 Select or Create a Preset 12 ATI Displays Help 13 Using Qui...

Page 4: ...iv Index 35...

Page 5: ...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 Externa...

Page 6: ...splay 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 m...

Page 7: ...ffects 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 tha...

Page 8: ...4 TV Out Support...

Page 9: ...n 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 4 Open ATI Utilities...

Page 10: ...s 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 w...

Page 11: ...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 sta...

Page 12: ...chnology provides rotation left or right by 90 degrees or turn it upside down to a full 180 degree rotation Use Relative Rotation to rotate the contents of your display relative to its current positio...

Page 13: ...ffecting 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 menu You ca...

Page 14: ...the Generalized Timing Formula standard This feature is enabled 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 sa...

Page 15: ...disabled Enable Alternate DVI TMDS Receiver Mode corrects problems such as noise or blank screens on some flat panels Default button undoes all changes and sets everything back to the original factor...

Page 16: ...Create a Preset ATI Displays includes a number of predefined 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...

Page 17: ...r maintains the original quality of your QuickTime movie when scaling to a larger size even full screen When playing movies in thousands or millions of colors the ATI card utilizes the 3D engine s cap...

Page 18: ...ctor on your DVI flat panel 3 Turn on your DVI flat panel and your Mac Note The DVI connector is hot swappable You no longer need to shut down your computer before attaching a digital flat panel Note...

Page 19: ...TION Please consult your monitor s specifications to determine which resolutions are available with your display Supported Modes Display Resolution Maximum Refresh 640 x 480 200 720 x 480 200 800 x 60...

Page 20: ...ith VESA s 1920 x 1200 resolution when attached to an ADC connector 1920 X 1200 100 1920 X 1440 90 2048 X 1152 100 2048 X 1280 100 2048 X 1536 85 Connection Type Resolution Example Product Single Link...

Page 21: ...ures Re orient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is...

Page 22: ...18 Compliance Information Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment WEEE Directive Compliance This product was manufactured by ATI Technologies Inc...

Page 23: ...setting layers of transparency or opacity as required in order to produce a realistic representation of a three dimensional object on a two dimensional display 3Dc An ATI hardware based compression te...

Page 24: ...image gradually fades into another Anisotropic Filtering A technique that preserves the surface details of an object as it recedes into the distance by utilizing and blending together the object s te...

Page 25: ...e color information about a pixel Larger bit depth means a greater range of color information is capable of being encoded into each pixel For example 1 binary bit of memory can only encode to either 0...

Page 26: ...lues of each color component are graphically represented by a corresponding color curve Color Correction Correct discrepancies between the real color value and the way a screen displays it Color discr...

Page 27: ...d right audio channels The quality of the video signal is reduced by the process of mixing the brightness and multiple color channels together into a single channel For this reason it is inferior in s...

Page 28: ...able of either analog or digital It supports high bandwidth video signals over 160 Hz so it is most often used for high resolution displays Flat Shading A lighting technique that shades each polygon o...

Page 29: ...creases in the perceived brightness for that device A change in gamma produces a non linear change in the color curve ensuring that perceived changes in color and intensity are consistently applied Go...

Page 30: ...splayed at the pixel level and removes from the pipeline those that are not actually displayed further improving rendering capabilities HyperZ HD HyperZ HD includes a number of different technologies...

Page 31: ...st to it while casting strong shadows in the background A softer light would be more diffuse and not cast shadows such as you would get outdoors on a typical overcast day Mipmapping The most memory in...

Page 32: ...a and Australia It draws a total of 625 vertical interlaced frames of video at a refresh rate of 25 Hz PCI Acronym for Peripheral Component Interconnect which is the specification for a type of comput...

Page 33: ...ealistic Refresh Rate Also referred to as vertical refresh rate This is the rate at which a monitor or television can redraw the screen from top to bottom NTSC television systems have a refresh rate o...

Page 34: ...e 4 3 aspect ratio and 480 scan lines to produce a picture as regular analog television sets but digital decoding enhanced of the signal displaying a sharper and crisper picture SDTV broadcasts are ei...

Page 35: ...ate on the individual pixels that fill in these polygons to create a visible image SmartShader HD is designed to alleviate the resource constraints of earlier shader hardware paving the way for more c...

Page 36: ...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 h...

Page 37: ...ap levels along with the standard mipmap samples VersaVision An ATI technology enabling accelerated display rotation and scaling Any desktop can now be rotated 90 degrees left or right or even 180 deg...

Page 38: ...standard Red Green Blue RGB colors of a television signal into separate luminance and color values The Y stands for the luminance channel while Pb and Pr represent the blue and red channels respectiv...

Page 39: ...ha blending 20 Anisotropic Filtering 13 Anisotropic filtering 20 31 32 Anti aliasing 20 31 32 Apple Display Connector 19 Apple Displays Properties 10 Apple System Preferences 5 Apple System Profiler R...

Page 40: ...ital Video Interface 24 Display Control Tab 10 Display Info 6 Display Scaling 9 Dithering 23 Dock 9 Dot pitch 24 30 DVD 23 32 DVI 19 DVI A 24 DVI D 24 DVI I 24 E Enable ATI Valid and Safe 10 Enable GT...

Page 41: ...Canada Compliance 17 K Keyframe interpolation 26 KTX Buffer Region Extension 27 L Lighting 19 Linux 28 Luminance 32 34 M Mac OS X 28 Mipmapping 27 Monitor Resolution 2D video mode table 15 Motherboar...

Page 42: ...30 Select or Create a Preset 12 Separate Video 32 Shader 31 Shader effects 31 Shader technology 31 Shadow mask 30 SmartShader 31 SmartShader HD 31 SMARTSHADER 3 SmoothVision 31 SmoothVision 2 0 31 Smo...

Page 43: ...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 an...

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