ATI Technologies Inc. is now shipping its much-anticipated Radeon 9600 Pro visual processing unit (VPU). Highly acclaimed by reviewers worldwide, the Radeon 9600 Pro allows performance mainstream users to access the world's leading graphics technologies initially developed for the Radeon 9800 Pro. The Radeon 9600 Pro offers true cinematic quality visual effects, performance-enhancing options and efficient, powerful graphics to gaming and graphics enthusiasts.

The Radeon 9600 Pro delivers cinematic realism and unprecedented power to the mainstream segment for less than $200 US. Driven by its full-time, full-precision floating point architecture featuring quad pixel pipes and dual vertex engines, the Radeon 9600 Pro also features full support for the latest Microsoft DirectX 9.0 and OpenGL feature sets and advanced anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering technologies. Graphics enthusiasts in the mainstream benefit from the blistering speed of the Radeon 9600 Pro as well as the ability to turn up quality settings for the best visual quality without sacrificing playable frame rates, even at high resolutions.