Architecture Highlights

256-bit graphics architecture 32MB high-performance SDRAM (Annihilator) or DDRRAM (Annihilator Pro) 350 MHz Palette-DAC AGP 4X with Fast Writes Peak fill rate of 480 million bilinear filtered, multi-textured pixels and more than 3.8 gigatexels per second Up to 15 million triangles per second at peak rates Integrated transform, lighting, setup and rendering engines Four 32-bit 3D rendering pipeline 4 texture mapped, lit pixels per clock cycle Single pass multi-texturing support (DirectX®6.X and OpenGL® ICD)

3D Features

	Transform and Lighting (T&L) Engine
	Graphics performance scale with Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) not CPU
	Render with geometry instead of texture
	Four rendering pipelines capable of delivering four pixels per clock
	Cube environment mapping in hardware, fully supported by DX7 and OpenGL
	Complete DirectX 7 support
	100% hardware triangle setup
	Texture Blend support:
	Multi-texture
	Bump map
	Light maps
	Reflection maps
	Detail textures
	Backend blend
	32-bit ARGB rendering with destination alpha
	Point sampled, Bilinear, Trilinear and 8-tap
	Anisotropic filtering
	Per pixel perspective correct texture mapping
	Fog
	Light
	Mip mapping
	Per pixel perspective correct texture mapping
	Full scene, order independent anti-aliasing
	32-bit Z and stencil buffer

2D Features

	Hardware acceleration for all Windows GDI operations
	Fast 32-bit VGA/SVGA support
	Multi-buffering (up to quad buffering) for smooth animation and video playback

Video Support

	Video Acceleration for DirectShow and, MPEG1, MPEG-2 and Indeo
	X and Y smooth up and down scaling with filtering
	Per-pixel color keying
	Multiple video windows with hardware color space conversion and filtering (YUV 4:2:2 and 4:2:0)Video port supports ITU- R 656

Card Specifications

	AGP 4X with Fast Writes
	VESA DDC 2B + DPMS
	Single slot 2D, 3D graphics, and video accelerator
	NVIDIA GeForce256 Classic graphics engine
	Integrated 350MHz RAMDAC supporting up to 2048X1536 in true color
	MPEG1, MPEG2 and full-motion video
	Motion Compensation for MPEG-2 decoding
	Full Plug and Play compliant

Drivers

	Windows 95 and 98 display driver (DirectDraw, Direct3D)
	Drivers for Windows NT4Ò (DirectDraw)
	OpenGL ICD for Windows 95 and NT 4.0
	VBE 3.0 compliant

Refresh Rates
Refresh rates shown are the highest obtainable and are monitor-dependent. Resolutions, pixel depths and refresh rates are driver-dependent and may not available in all applications or operating system.