- Features:
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- 64-bit and 128-bit memory interface supporting 64MB or 128MB DDR1 memory configurations
- Four extreme parallel 3D rendering pixel pipelines
- Two programmable vertex shader pipelines
- PCI Express® x16 lane native support
- Full Microsoft® DirectX® 9 support
- SmartShader™ 2.0
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- SmartShader™ defines the level of realism in latest 2D/3D games and applications
- Complete hardware-accelerated Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shader support
- Full hardware support for OpenGL®
- SmoothVision™ 2.1
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- SmoothVision™ improves image quality by smoothing jagged edges, improving blurriness and refining background details during on-screen motion and at lower resolutions.
- SmoothVision™ settings are user-configurable in ATI Catalyst®
- Control Panel:
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- 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing (AA) modes
- Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns and centroid sampling
- Loss-less Color Compression (up to 6:1) at all resolutions
- Temporal Anti-Aliasing
- 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering (AF) modes
- Up to 128-tap texture filtering
- Adaptive algorithm with bilinear (performance) and trilinear (quality) options
- Hyper Z™ III
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- Hyper Z™ ensures optimal hardware performance by discarding irrelevant object data that is not visible to end-user on their display.
- Leverages key features from ATI's third generation Hyper Z™ III technology that conserves video memory bandwidth for improved performance in demanding 2D/3D games and applications.
- Lossless Z-Buffer Compression (up to 48:1)
- Fast Z-Buffer Clear
- Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering
- VideoShader™
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- 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, iDCT, DCT and color space conversion
- All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
- YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displaysâ€
- Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion (temporal filtering) additional features
- Additional Features
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- 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
- ATI Catalyst® Software Suite
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Product Spec
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64-bit and 128-bit memory interface supporting 64MB or 128MB DDR1 memory configurations Two programmable vertex shader pipelines PCI Express® x16 lane native support Full Microsoft® DirectX® 9 support Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400 MHz DACsIntegrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI 1.0 / HDMI compliant and HDCP ready) Maximum 3D Resolutions 16.7M colors 2048x1536 85HzFullStream™ video de-blocking technology for Real, DivX, and WMV9 formats Hardware Motion Compensation, iDCT, DCT and color space conversion ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite
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HardwareZoom.com Highly Recommended
With limited choices of low-end PCI-Express cards in the market, the Radeon X550 is a much better alternative than integrated graphics or Radeon X300. Priced between the X300 and X600, the X550 has same number of pixel pipelines and vertex shaders. The Sapphire Radeon X550 equipped with 256MB DDR2 BGA memory running at 128-bit, which can be easily overclocked to beat the X600Pro. With 15% overclocking for the GPU and 50% for the memory, the X550 score 20-40% higher in our benchmark.
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SAPPHIRE X550
