POWERCOLOR ATI Radeon X1950 PRO 256 D3 2DH AC2 PCIE

Features

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* Unique Cooling Performance with 6 Heat Pipes
* Fully Crossfire and BTX compatible
* Voltage Converter Cooling
* Patented Vibration Absorption
* Noiseless Fan = 0.4 Sone

Features

* 36 pixel shader processors
* 8 vertex shader processors
* Up to 256-bit 8 channel GDDR3 memory interface
* Native PCI Express® x16 bus interface
* Plug-and-play (native) CrossFire™

Shader Technology

* Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware.
* Shader Model 3.0 vertex and pixel shader support:
o Full speed 32-bit floating point processing
o High dynamic range rendering with floating point blending and anti-aliasing support
o High performance dynamic branching and flow control
* Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® 2.0

Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering

o 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes:
+ Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns, and centroid sampling
+ New Adaptive Anti-Aliasing mode
+ Temporal Anti-Aliasing
o Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1) at all resolutions, up to and including widescreen HDTV
o 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes:
+ Up to 128-tap texture filtering
+ Adaptive algorithm with performance and quality options
o Improved rendering with higher subpixel precision and LOD computation levels
+ New rotational high quality rendering mode
+ 3Dc+™ — Advanced Texture Compression
o High quality 4:1 compression for normal maps and luminance maps
o Works with any single-channel or two-channel data format
o High quality 4:1 compression for normal maps and luminance maps
o Works with any single-channel or two-channel data format
Ring Bus Memory Controller
o Programmable arbitration logic maximizes memory efficiency, software upgradeable
o New fully associative texture, color, and Z cache design
o Hierarchical Z-Buffer with Early Z Test
o Lossless Z-Buffer Compression (up to 48:1)
o Fast Z-Buffer Clear
o Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering
o Optimized for performance at high display resolutions, up to and including widescreen HDTV
Avivo™ Video and Display Engine
o New advanced video capabilities, including high fidelity gamma, color correction and scaling
o Dual independent display controllers that support true 30 bits per pixel throughout the display pipe
o Full symmetry on both heads
o Each display interface supports display resolutions beyond 2560x1600
o Advanced DVI capabilities, including 10-bit, 16-bit HDR output
o YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays
o Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
o MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration:
o DXVA support
+ Hardware motion compensation, iDCT, DCT and color space conversion
o All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
o Adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing and frame rate conversion (temporal filtering)

CrossFire™
o Multi-GPU technology
o Four modes of operation:
+ Alternate frame rendering for maximum performance
+ Supertiling for optimal load-balancing
+ Scissoring for compatibility
+ Super AA for maximum image quality
o Native CrossFire support simplifies setup by requiring no dedicated slave or master hardware
o 24-bit CrossFire connection enables high resolutions and refresh rates
o Supports the broadest range of platforms for both Intel and AMD

Specifications

Graphics Engine RADEON X1950
Video Memory 256 MB GDDR3
Engine Clock 600 MHz
Memory Clock 650 MHz x 2
Memory Interface 256 bit
DirectX Support 9
Bus Standard PCIE x16