SAPPHIRE 9550

Graphics

Redefining Mainstream Graphics

The SAPPHIRE RADEON™ 9550 delivers unprecedented realism and visual quality to the enthusiast with true support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9 technology. Fitted with 128MB of onboard memory and utilizing next generation VPU technology the SAPPHIRE RADEON™ 9550 offers more then just blistering frame-rates and fluid graphics with realistic and dynamic lighting, the RADEON™ 9550 is also capable of superior DVD/HDTV decoding while keeping the CPU free to work in the background on other tasks! The RADEON™ 9550 increases expectations of what a mainstream product should be!

	Industry acclaimed next generation VPU, RADEON™ 9550
	True Microsoft® DX9 Performance for today's games
	Full support for the latest OpenGL® functionality
	Next Generation Performance with 128MB onboard memory
	Supports the AGP 8X and AGP 4x standard, providing a high-speed link between the graphics board and the rest of the PC

SAPPHIRE 9550

Features

4 parallel pixel pipelines
2 programmable vertex shader pipelines
128-bit dual-channel DDR memory interface
AGP8x/4x

SmartShader™ 2.0

Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware
DirectX® 9.0 Vertex Shaders
- Vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with flow control
DirectX® 9.0 Pixel Shaders
- Up to 1,536 instructions and 16 textures per rendering pass
- 32 temporary and constant registers
- 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™ 2.1

2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes
- Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns, and centroid sampling
- Lossless Color Compression (up to6:1)at all resolutions
- Temporal Anti-Aliasing
2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes
- Up to 128-tap texture filtering
- Adaptive algorithm with bilinear (performance) and trilinear (quality) options

HYPER Z™ III

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

VideoShader™

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

*Specifications are subject to change without notice and may vary depending upon product sku*

Disclaimer:
Product specifications subject to change without notice. Product bundle varies by countries, check local dealers for details.

	Product Spec
	Industry acclaimed next generation VPU, RADEON™ 9550 Next Generation Performance with 128MB onboard memory 128-Bit and 64-bit memory interface (64-bit product part# 1024-KC20-HD-SA Supports the AGP 8X and AGP 4x standard, providing a high-speed link between the graphics board and the rest of the PC True Microsoft® DX9 Performance for today's games Full support for the latest OpenGL® functionality Superior streaming video for an enhanced visual experience Integrated digital video support for flat panel displays Superior DVD/HDTV decoding

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