Article: Intel® Desktop Board D945GTP Review (Mature for Business Segment)
Many thanks to Intel® for providing the board.
I. Introduction
II. Specification
Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 Graphics solution
- 256-bit graphics core running at 400MHz
- Up to 10.6 GB/sec memory bandwidth with DDR2 667 system memory
- 1.6 GPixels/sec and 1.6 GTexels/sec fill rate
- Up to 224 MB maximum video memory
- 2048x1536 at 75 Hz maximum resolution
- Dynamic Display Modes for flat-panel, wide-screen and Digital TV support
- Operating systems supported: Microsoft Windows* XP, Windows* XP 64bit, Media Center Edition 2004/2005, Windows 2000; Linux-compatible (Xfree86 source available)
- Up to 4 pixels per clock rendering
- Microsoft* DirectX* 9 Hardware Acceleration Features:
- Pixel Shader 2.0
- Volumetric Textures
- Shadow Maps
- Slope Scale Depth Bias
- Two-Sided Stencil
- Microsoft* DirectX* 9 Vertex Shader 3.0 and Transform and Lighting supported in software through highly optimized Processor Specific Geometry Pipeline (PSGP)
- Texture Decompression for DirectX* and OpenGL*
- OpenGL* 1.4 support plus ARB_vertex_buffer and EXT_shadow_funcs extensions and TexEnv shader caching
- Up to 2048x1536 resolution for both analog and digital displays
- Consumer Electronic display (Digital TV) support
- Display hot plug support to automatically detect new display connection while system is operating (CRT and DVI)
- Two Serial Digital Video Out (SDVO) ports for flat-panel monitors and/or TV-out support via Advanced Digital Display 2 (ADD2) cards or Media Expansion Cards
- Intel Media Expansion Cards available providing TV-out and PVR capability
- Multiple display types (LVDS, DVI-I, DVI-D, HDTV, TV-out, CRT)
- Dual screen support through ADD2 digital video devices
- HDTV 480i/p, 576i/p, 720i/p and 1080i/p display resolution support
- Interlaced Display output support
- 16x9 and 16x10 Aspect Ratio for widescreen displays
- 2x2 Panel Scaler
- High Definition Hardware Motion Compensation to support high definition hi-bitrate MPEG2 media playback
- Up and Down Scaling of Video Content
- High Definition Content Decode - up to two stream support
- 5x3 Overlay Filtering.