ATI Radeon™ HD 3400 Series – Overview

Experience the Power of HD
Experience the power of HD with the ATI Radeon HD 3400 Series of GPUs - graphics processing designed for entertainment and productivity.

HD Video Beyond 1080p
With ATI Avivo™ HD technology, the latest Blu-ray and HD DVD movies play as smoothly as intended; at True HD 1080p. The Unified Video Decoder (UVD) relieves your CPU from the taxing video decode process and enables time-saving multi-tasking. Enjoy quality to spare with resolutions upscaled beyond 1080p for the most processing-intensive content. And with a choice of digital outputs, you have more options when enjoying your digital entertainment.

HD Gaming Technology
Play the next generation of HD games featuring life-like graphics realism from Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 compatibility. With PCI Express® 2.0 support, you’re ready for games that demand fast throughput. And boost your gaming experience with ATI Hybrid Graphics multi-GPU technology – get an easy performance upgrade when you plug into a compatible AMD 7-Series Integrated Chipset-based motherboard.

Break-through Efficiency
ATI Radeon™ HD 3400 Series graphics processors deliver break-through efficiency from cutting-edge technology and new energy-saving features that can help lower your energy costs and enable cool, quiet PCs. Be more productive with advanced multi-monitor support and enjoy the extraordinary value.

ATI Radeon HD 3400 Series – Key Features

• Improved Unified Video Decoder – View and manipulate the latest Blu-ray and HD DVD content with a dedicated hardware video decoder that leaves your CPU free to perform other tasks.
• Ultimate Image Quality – Performance that rivals high-end HD-DVD and Blu-ray players on displays with resolutions that exceed 1080p – up to 2560x1600.1
• Integrated Digital Outputs – Enjoy your digital content the way you want to, with built-in HDMI that includes 5.1 surround audio for big screen entertainment and the latest in display connectivity; DisplayPort™ technology.
• PCI Express® 2.0 – Get ready for the most demanding graphics applications with PCI Express 2.0 support, which allows up to twice the throughput of current AMD PCI Express cards.
• DirectX® 10.1 Compatibility – You’ll be blown away by life-like graphics from Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 games, with stunning 3D graphics and shading effects.
• ATI Hybrid Graphics – Combine an ATI Radeon™ HD 3400 Series graphics card with a compatible AMD 7-Series Integrated Chipset to improve gaming performance and multi-monitor productivity.
• ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU – Upgrade to even greater 3D performance quickly and easily thanks to plug-and-play ATI CrossFireX technology.
• ATI PowerPlay™ Technology – power saving features that reduce power consumption at idle or during low-usage
• Runs Cool and Quiet – With a smaller chip designed to use less power, your system can take advantage of high-end Windows Vista® features while running more efficiently and quieter than ever.
• Be More Productive – See more and do more of your work and entertainment with advanced multi-monitor support.

 

 

Graphic Processor	ATI Radeon® HD3450
Bus Type	PCI-Express® 2.0  X16 slot
Memory	256MB DDR-2 with 64Bits Memory interface
Video Output	DVI (Dual Link) / VGA (D-Sub) / HDTV* / TV-Out
HDMI Output	Optional DVI to HDMI adapter
3D API Support	Microsoft® DirectX™ 10.1, Shader Model 4.1 and OpenGL™ 2.0
Stream processor	40 stream processor units
Vertex Shader	8 Vertex Shader
Resolution	Support up to 2560 x 1600
	*HDTV support with optional HDTV cable

ATI Radeon™ HD3450 GPU

• 181 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
• PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
• 64-bit DDR2 memory interface
• Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support
• Shader Model 4.1
• 32-bit floating point texture filtering
• Indexed cube map arrays
• Independent blend modes per render target
• Pixel coverage sample masking
• Read/write multi-sample surfaces with shaders
• Gather4 texture fetching
• Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
• 40 stream processing units
• Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders
• Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders
• Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors
• 128-bit floating point precision for all operations
• Command processor for reduced CPU overhead
• Shader instruction and constant caches
• Up to 16 texture fetches per clock cycle
• Up to 128 textures per pixel
• Fully associative multi-level texture cache design
• DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression
• High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
• Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs
• Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear
• Lossless Z & stencil compression
• 8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support
• Physics processing support
• Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
• Programmable tessellation unit
• Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification
• Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance
• Anti-aliasing features
• Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2 or 4 samples per pixel)
• Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality
• Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
• Temporal anti-aliasing
• Gamma correct
• Super AA (CrossFire configurations only)
• All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering
• Texture filtering features
• 2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel)
• 128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering
• Bicubic filtering
• sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)
• Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF)
• Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support
• Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support
• OpenGL 2.0 support
• ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform
• Dedicated unified video decoder (UVD) for H.264/AVC and VC-1 video formats
• High definition (HD) playback of both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats
• Hardware MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and DivX video decode acceleration
• Motion compensation and IDCT
• ATI Avivo Video Post Processor
• Color space conversion
• Chroma subsampling format conversion
• Horizontal and vertical scaling
• Gamma correction
• Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing
• De-blocking and noise reduction filtering
• Detail enhancement
• Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
• Bad edit correction
• Two independent display controllers
• Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video overlays for each display
• Full 30-bit display processing
• Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion
• Spatial/temporal dithering provides 30-bit color quality on 24-bit and 18-bit displays
• High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all display outputs
• Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays
• Fast, glitch-free mode switching
• Hardware cursor
• Integrated DVI display outputs
• Primary supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI)
• Includes HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for maximum resolution playback of protected content
• Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs
• Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x15361
• HDMI output support (with optional DVI to HDMI output adapter)
• Supports all display resolutions up to 1920x10801
• Integrated HD audio controller with multi-channel (5.1) AC3 support, enabling a plug-and-play cable-less audio solution
• MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264/AVC encoding and transcoding
• Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
• VGA mode support on all display outputs
• ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology
• Scale up rendering performance and image quality with two GPUs
• Integrated compositing engine
• ATI Hybrid Graphics support

ATI Hybrid Graphics support(4)

• PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
• 300 Watt (450 Watt for dual ATI CrossFireX™) or greater power supply recommended
• Certified power supplies are recommended
• 1GB of system memory recommended
• Installation software requires an optical drive
• DVD playback requires a DVD drive
• Blu-ray™ / HD DVD playback requires a Blu-ray / HD DVD drive
• For an ATI Hybrid Graphics system, a compatible AMD 7-Series Chipset-based motherboard is required
• For a complete ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second ATI Radeon™ HD 3400 series graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard are required