shaders in the MR9800 from two units in the MR9700 to four. With respect to features, the MR9800 has nothing new to offer. As before, 2.0 vertex shaders are supported. However, this boosts the polygon performance of the new chip respectably. The number of pixel...

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Bandwidth 6400 - 7040 MB/s AGP 8x support Two DirectX 8.1 compliant programmable vertex shaders DirectX 8.1 compliant programmable pixel shaders Four pixel rendering pipelines One texturing unit per pixel pipeline Hyper-Z II Memory Bandwidth Optimization Smoothvision...

new mobile chip is nothing more than a brother of the NV40, running with "only" 12 pixel shaders and five vertex shaders. (Actually, since the GeForce Go 6800 is a PCI Express device, we cannot help but thinking that it may in fact be closer to the NV45 than...

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card a good workout. "Knights Of The Old Republic" pushes the Star Wars saga to new heights with some great vertex shader effects and pixel shader work on the light saber, which provide this game with a unique look. "Madden 2004" is still the best of the best,...

As said at the outset, the ATi Mobility FireGL V5000 is based on the core of the Mobility Radeon X700, which has 8 pixel pipelines and 6 freely programmable vertex shaders. In contrast, the Mobility Radeon X600 has 4 rendering and 2 vertex engines. Furthermore,...

3D games, 3DMark05 patently deflates this false hope. As most well-informed Tom's Hardware Guide readers know, the Mobility Radeon X300 and X600 graphics processors both offer four-pixel pipelines and two programmable vertex shaders. These graphics processors...

now. Despite the "9" in the model name, this GPU is DirectX 8.1-compatible and is based on the technology of the Mobility Radeon 9000, which was the first GPU to support DirectX 8.1. The chip also has programmable 1.4 pixel and 1.0 vertex shaders, in addition...