Archief - Sapphire ATI X1950XT

Features

        * 384 million transistors on 90nm
        * fabrication process
        * Up to 48 pixel shader processors
        * 8 vertex shader processors
        * 256-bit 8-channel GDDR3
        * memory interface
        * Native PCI Express x16 bus interface 

Ring Bus Memory Controller

        * Up to 512-bit internal ring bus for memory reads
        * Fully associative texture, color, and Z/stencil cache designs
        * Hierarchical Z-buffer with Early Z test
        * Lossless Z Compression (up to 48:1)
        * Fast Z-Buffer Clear
        * Optimized for performance at high display resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions 

Ultra-Threaded Shader Engine

        * Support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware
        * Full speed 128-bit floating point processing for all shader operations
        * Up to 512 simultaneous pixel threads
        * Dedicated branch execution units for high performance dynamic branching and flow control
        * Dedicated texture address units for improved efficiency
        * 3Dc+ texture compression o High quality 4:1 compression for normal maps and two-channel data formats
        * High quality 2:1 compression for luminance maps and single-channel data formats
        * Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL 2.0 

Advanced Image Quality Features

        * 64-bit floating point HDR rendering supported throughout the pipeline
              o Includes support for blending and multi-sample anti-aliasing 
        * 32-bit integer HDR (10:10:10:2) format supported throughout the pipeline
              o Includes support for blending and multi-sample anti-aliasing 
        * 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes
              o Multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sparse sample patterns, and centroid sampling
              o New Adaptive Anti-Aliasing feature with Performance and Quality modes
              o Temporal Anti-Aliasing mode
              o Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1) at all resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions 
        * 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes
              o Up to 128-tap texture filtering
              o Adaptive algorithm with Performance and Quality options 
        * High resolution texture support (up to 4k x 4k) 

Avivo Video and Display Platform

        * High performance programmable video processor
              o Accelerated MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264 decoding and transcoding
              o DXVA support
              o De-blocking and noise reduction filtering
              o Motion compensation, IDCT, DCT and color space conversion
              o Vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing
              o 3:2 pulldown (frame rate conversion) 
        * Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
        * HDR tone mapping acceleration
              o Maps any input format to 10 bit per channel output 
        * Flexible display support
              o Dual integrated dual-link DVI transmitters
                    + DVI 1.0 compliant / HDMI interoperable and HDCP ready* 
              o Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400 MHz DACs
              o 16 bit per channel floating point HDR and 10 bit per channel DVI output
              o Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion (10 bits per color)
              o Complete, independent color controls and video overlays for each display
              o High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all outputs
              o Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays
              o Xilleon TV encoder for high quality analog output
              o YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays
              o Spatial/temporal dithering enables 10-bit color quality on 8-bit and 6-bit displays
              o Fast, glitch-free mode switching
              o VGA mode support on all outputs
              o Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates 
        * Compatible with ATI TV/Video encoder products, including Theater 550 

     

    CrossFire

        * Multi-GPU technology
          Four modes of operation:
              o Alternate Frame Rendering (maximum performance)
              o Supertiling (optimal load-balancing)
              o Scissor (compatibility)
              o Super AA 8x/10x/12x/14x (maximum image quality)