Creative has a very interesting history with graphics cards. Its the only company we know of that has produced graphics cards based on 3DFX, S3, nVidia and ATI technologies. Whats even more interesting is that earlier this year, Creative acquired 3D Labs meaning we shall be looking at Creative's "in-house" graphics cards soon. Now that does raise an interesting point- why would Creative chose to release a Radeon 9700 Pro based card when they're expecting their own 3D Labs solution pretty soon. We dont have an answer for that yet, however, we do have Creative's Radeon 9700 Pro based card- the 3D Labs Blaster 5 RX9700 in out hands today.
RADEON 9700 Pro rendering engine utilizes 8 parallel rendering pipelines, doubling the rendering power to an incredible fill rate of 2.6 GigaPixels per sec
128MB of ultra fast 2.8ns DDR memory delivers breakneck speed performance
256-bit DDR memory interface removes performance bottleneck, providing 19.8 GigaBytes per sec memory bandwidth for running memory intensive applications at high resolutions
AGP 8X allows large volumes of textures and vertex data to be transferred from system memory to the card
HYPERZ III intelligently boost effective memory bandwidth, resulting in better performance
SMARTSHADER II enables complex, cinematic visual effects and life-like texturing details
128-bit floating point color precision enhances the dynamism in gaming visuals with a greater range of colors and brightness
SMOOTHVISION II, a sophisticated anti-aliasing algorithm, removes unrealistic jagged edges from the scene without compromising performance
VIDEOSHADER uses programmable pixel shaders to accelerate video processing, delivering artifact-free full-screen DVD and VCD video playback on PC
FULLSTREAM enhances the quality of video by removing blocky artifacts from Streaming nd Internet video, offering smoother-looking images
Integrated 400MHz DAC supports 2D and 3D resolutions up to 2048x1536@85Hz
Cooling fan-cum-heatsink ensures reliability and maximum performance of card
Fully equipped with video outputs to PC monitor, TV and digital LCD panel
Capable of 2 simultaneous displays with independent resolutions and refresh rates
Optimized for and fully compliant with DirectX 9.0 and latest OpenGL functionality
Bundled with HYDRAVISION multi-monitor management software
