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Radeon X800XL 256MB DDR/PCI-E/TV-Out/VGA/DVI
Does anyone remember the nVidia TNT2 video card? How about the Ti4200 or
Radeon 9500 Pro? One thing in common that these cards had were the
capability to run any game at that time, they were significantly less
expensive, yet their GPU was based on their flagship brethren. Whenever
a new card comes around you'll always drool over it, but what most of us
don't take into consideration is that the less significant cards are
cheaper and perform just a fraction less. The X800XL debut from ATI
actually caused quite a commotion due to its cost being 1/3 of the 850PE
flagship card. What you get in a X800XL is a flagship GPU with slower
clocks, yet unlike the X800 Pro series you still retain the 16 pipes
which allow the card to maintain some outstanding performance in quality
mode with anti-aliasing and anistropic filtering enabled. So lets dive
in and take a look!
Specifications
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 high definition 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.
Cutting Edge Video Technology
The RADEON X800 series gives you more than just a great gaming
experience. It also has sophisticated video processing, filtering and
acceleration features that make multimedia applications more efficient,
inspiring and fun. With VIDEOSHADER™ HD, the RADEON X800 takes advantage
of its advanced shader processing engine for user programmable video
effects, video quality enhancement, and encoding and decoding of many
video standards, including MPEG1/2/4, Real Media, DivX and WMV9.
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
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