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SmartShader™
SmartShader™ is ATI’s patented shader technology, providing custom
transform and lighting effects for vertex shaders, allowing for finer control
over the shape and position of 3D objects, as well as pixel shader effects
that produce more accurate simulations of natural properties such as hair,
metal, glass, and water in a real-time rendering environment. Important
visual cues such as reflections, highlights, and shadows from multiple light
sources can be rendered more speedily and accurately. It also increases the
number of graphical effects that can be created, increasing overall
performance while conserving memory bandwidth.
SmartShader™ HD
SmartShader™ HD contains advanced vertex and pixel-shading
capabilities. A shader is a small program that runs on the GPU and
describes how an image should be rendered. Vertex shaders manipulate the
individual polygons that make up 3D objects, and pixel shaders operate 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 complex, detailed, and
realistic shader effects in applications requiring high-performance 3D
rendering.
SmoothVision™
SmoothVision™ supports high-quality and high-performance anti-aliasing
modes, both of which are required for creating high-quality 3D computer
graphics. Both of these modes provide users with the ability to choose
between 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, and 6x sampling, allowing for a total of 10 different
anti-aliasing settings, providing incrementally better, more realistic visual
displays. The SmoothVision™ technology maintains a high level of
performance even when a high anti-aliasing sampling rate is selected.
SmoothVision™ 2.0
This technology provides improved levels of image quality with advanced
full-scene anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering. This technology enhances
image quality by removing jagged edges and bringing out fine texture
detail at no cost to performance by optimizing the filtering methods used.