specifications

is there a website that would explain, what all this specifications mean, i understand Clock Speed, Mem Bandwidth, but what a hell is Pixel Shaders or Vertex Shaders and others?


Process .15 micron
Engine Clock Speed 412+ Mhz
Rendering Pipelines 8
Full precision PS2.0 FPU’s 8
Peak Pixel Fill Rate 3.3+ Gpixels/sec
Peak Vertex Throughput 412M+ Triangles/sec
Maximum Floating-Point Precision 128-bit
Textures Applied per Pass 16
Geometry Pipelines 4
Memory Clock Speed 364+ Mhz DDR
Peak Memory Bandwidth 23.3+ GB/sec
Bandwidth Compression Ratio 8.8:1
RAMDAC 400Mhz
AA Sampler per Second 19.8+ Gsamples/sec
Maximum Texels Filtered per Pixel 768+ Texels/Pixel

KEY FEATURES:
DirectX 9.0 YES
Vertex Shaders 2.0
Pixel Shaders 2.0
Higher Order Surfaces Truform 2
Environmental Bump Maps Yes
3D Textures Yes
Anisotropic Filtering Up to 16x
Anti Aliasing Up to 6x
FSAA Gamma Correction Yes
Video Gamma Correction Yes
Multi Display Management Software Hydravision 2
High Dimension Floating-Point Texture Yes
Displacement Mapping Yes Yes
Multiple Rendering Targets Yes
Centroid Sampling Yes