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Connect3d X800XL 256mb PCI-E

Posted by: Rchiilleea on: 30.12.2005 01:00:00 [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

The RADEON™ X800 series offers a future-proof solution by fully adapting the newest PC architecture standard - PCI Express™ to support current and upcoming game titles, operating systems and multimedia applications. ATI's PCI Express graphics have the ability to send and receive data simultaneously at twice the speed of current AGP 8X solutions with reliability and better power management by offering a one-chip PCI Express solution.

The World's Fastest And Most Powerful VPU*
The RADEON X800 series of products deliver frame rates that surpass any previous graphics processor making it the world's fastest and most powerful VPU*. With twice the performance of the acclaimed RADEON 9800 PRO, the RADEON X800 series provides an extremely smooth, responsive HD gaming experience, putting capable gamers in complete control of even the most demanding game titles. A radically new architecture based on the latest .13 micron, low-k manufacturing process with ultra fast and efficient GDDR3 memory combine to produce extreme data rates and unbelievable acceleration in a quiet, cool, single-slot solution.

Breakthrough Image Quality
The RADEON X800 series defines a totally new High-Definition Gaming experience for the avid gamer by maximizing performance and image quality in higher detail and at higher resolutions than ever before. ATI's new and revolutionary 3Dc™ image enhancement technology brings characters to life and scenery to greater realism by enabling significant improvements to the image detail of character art with increased performance and lower memory usage. 3Dc™ is slated to become the industry standard to support more complex highdefinition visual effects in real time.

World's Most Advanced 3D Architecture
The RADEON X800 series features SMARTSHADER™ HD, the most advanced pixel shader engine with up to 16 parallel pixel pipelines capable of over 8 gigapixels/second fill rate in full precision! With six programmable vertex
shader pipelines, capable of over 750 million vertices per second and an overall capability of over 200 billion floating point operations per second (GigaFLOPS), the RADEON X800 series delivers the most beautifully rendered high-definition 3D animation for the ultimate in intense, interactive game play.

Massive Performance And Innovative Image Technology Give Rise To High-Definition (HD) Gaming
The RADEON X800 series is the world's fastest and most powerful VPU*, setting a new standard in graphics performance and visual realism.
With up to 16 pipelines, higher clock speeds and breakthrough image enhancement technology, the RADEON X800 series ushers in a whole new gaming category called High-Definition Gaming.
The RADEON X800 series also supports the latest high-definition and wide display formats, giving users bigger and more vivid movie, gaming and Internet experiences.

Directx® 9.0 Leadership Continues
Over the past several years ATI has established a legacy of providing the highest performing Microsoft® DirectX® graphics card solutions. The RADEON X800 offers the latest DirectX® 9.0 and OpenGL® 2.0 shader support to ensure that current and upcoming games look and play brilliantly, especially in high-definition.

Stability is a Foundation of The Radeon X800 Series
ATI's award-winning CATALYST™ software driver suite optimizes the graphics processor performance of ATI's desktop products while ensuring maximum stability and user control. CATALYST™ provides frequent driver updates backed by ATI customer support, to ensure complete satisfaction.
160 million transistors on 0.13 micron low-k fabrication process
Six programmable vertex shader pipelines
256-bit quad-channel GDDR3 memory interface
PCI Express x16 lane native support

SMARTSHADER™ HD
Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware
Direct X 9.0 Vertex Shaders
Vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with flow control
Single cycle trigonometric operations (SIN & COS)
Direct X 9.0 Extended Pixel Shaders
Up to 1,536 instructions and 16 textures per rendering pass
2nd generation F-buffer technology accelerates multi-pass pixel shader programs with unlimited instructions
32 temporary and constant registers
Facing register for two-sided lighting
128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point color formats
Multiple Render Target (MRT) support
Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® via extensions SMOOTHVISION™ HD
2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes
Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns, and centroid sampling
Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1)at all resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions
Temporal Anti-Aliasing o 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes
Up to 128-tap texture filtering
Adaptive algorithm with bilinear (performance) and trilinear (quality) options

3Dc™
High quality 4:1 Normal Map Compression
Works with any two-channel data format HYPER Z™ HD
3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with Early Z Test
Lossless Z-Buffer Compression (up to 48:1)
Fast Z-Buffer Clear
Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering
Optimized for performance at high display resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions

VIDEOSHADER™ HD
Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
FULLSTREAM™ video de-blocking technology for Real, DivX, and WMV9 formats
VIDEOSOAP™ noise removal filtering for captured video
MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration
DXVA Support
Hardware Motion Compensation, o iDCT, DCT and color space conversion
All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays†
Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion (temporal filtering)

ADDITIONAL FEATURES
Dual integrated display controllers
Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400 MHz DACs
Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI 1.0 / HDMI compliant and HDCP ready)
Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution
Windows® Logo Program compliant
CATALYST™ Software Suite

According to the specs the Card like the sapphire version should be easily, capable of some very respectable frame rates in HL2 and Doom3 as well as completing 3dmark 03, and 05 with some respectable scores. Will it or will it fail and full to the side? Let us get on with the review and find out.

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