Radeon® HD 2400 Series

ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 Series – Overview

Feature-Rich DirectX® 10 Gaming and HD Video for Windows Vista™

The ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 is a feature-rich upgrade from integrated graphics for an immersive experience with DirectX® 10 gaming and HD video. Connect to big-screen TVs with HDMI and built-in 5.1 surround sound audio to enjoy Blu-ray™ and HD DVD movies. ATI Catalyst™ graphics configuration software is designed for quick setup and stable operation with Windows Vista™.

Product Features

Hardware based H.264/VC-1 decoding of Blu-ray™ and HD DVDs
HDMI with 5.1 surround sound audio
DirectX® 10 support
Up to twice the performance of integrated graphics

HD Gaming with DirectX® 10
Enjoy a dramatic high-definition gaming experience with Windows Vista at up to twice the performance of integrated graphics. Enhance your game play and experience sharper images, more textures, and the improved lighting effects that create lifelike interactivity and immersive realism enabled by DirectX 10 support.

Experience the difference with DirectX® 10 (video)

ATI Avivo™ HD Video & Media
Combine advanced HD video processing with cool, quiet, and energy efficient operation that will delight a home theater enthusiast. ATI Avivo™ HD technology provides hardware based H.264/VC-1 decoding of Blu-ray and HD DVD movies and built-in 5.1 surround audio designed for an easy HDMI connection to big-screen TVs.

Certified for Windows Vista™
Enhance the stunning Windows Aero™ user interface with a powerful performance upgrade from integrated graphics. ATI Catalyst graphics management software is Certified for Windows Vista and designed for quick and easy setup of graphics, video, and multiple displays.

Windows Vista, the Windows Vista Start button and DirectX are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 Series - GPU Specifications

ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 Feature Summary

180 million transistors on 65nm fabrication process
64-bit DDR2/GDDR3 memory interface
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 vertex/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
Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10
- Shader Model 4.0
- Geometry Shaders
- Stream Output
- Integer and Bitwise Operations
- Alpha to Coverage
- Constant Buffers
- State Objects
- Texture Arrays
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 (up to 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
CrossFire™ Multi-GPU Technology
- Scale up rendering performance and image quality with 2 or more GPUs
- Integrated compositing engine
- High performance dual channel interconnect
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, MPEG-4/DivX video decode acceleration
  - Motion compensation and iDCT (inverse discrete cosine transform)
- Avivo Video Post Processor
  - Color space conversion
  - Chroma subsampling format conversion
  - Horizontal and vertical scaling
  - Gamma correction
- High Quality Video Post Processing
  - 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
- Two 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)¹
  - Secondary supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI only)¹
  - Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content²
- Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs
  - Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x1536¹
- HDMI output support
  - 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
- Integrated AMD Xilleon™ HDTV encoder
- 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
PCI Express x16 bus interface
OpenGL 2.0 support

1 Some custom resolutions require user configuration
2 HDCP support for playback of protected content requires connection to a HDCP capable display

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