Delivering Limitless Fantasy to the Mainstream!

A tool for the mainstream enthusiast, the Sapphire X1600 XT packs enough hardware muscle to deliver far off worlds, exploding with life, right to your desktop! Equipped with the awesome feature-set of the RADEON X1600 XT core, a robust onboard memory configuration and 12 pipeline architecture the X1600 XT is the definitive gaming solution for today and the titles of tomorrow . An impressive hardware compilation promising unparalleled speed with CrossFire™ support, HD Display connectivity with Avivo™ and support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 ensures future compatibly and that you will not have to limit your fantasies to just your desktop.

RADEON™ X1600 XT core
CrossFire™ Support
256MB GDDR3 Onboard Memory
Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0
12 pixel pipeline architecture
PCI-Express
Smoothvision HD + Adaptive AA
Avivo™ Technology
Hyper Z HD, Video Shader HD
 
 
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Features
  • 157 million transistors on 90nm fabrication process
  • Dual-link DVI
  • Twelve pixel shader processors
  • Five vertex shader processors
  • 128-bit 4-channel DDR/DDR2/GDDR3 memory interface
  • Native PCI Express x16 bus interface
    • AGP 8x configurations also supported with AGP-PCI-E external bridge chip
  • Dynamic Voltage Control
Ring Bus Memory Controller
  • 256-bit internal ring bus for memory reads
  • Programmable intelligent arbitration logic
  • 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
  • Z/stencil cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering
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 128 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
    • 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
  • Multiple Render Target (MRT) support
  • Render to vertex buffer support
  • Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL®2.0
Advanced Image Quality Features
  • 64-bit floating point HDR rendering supported throughout the pipeline
    • Includes support for blending and multi-sample anti-aliasing
  • 32-bit integer HDR (10:10:10:2) format supported throughout the pipeline
    • Includes support for blending and multi-sample anti-aliasing
  • 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes
    • Multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sparse sample patterns, and centroid sampling
    • New Adaptive Anti-Aliasing feature with Performance and Quality modes
    • Temporal Anti-Aliasing mode
    • Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1) at all resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions
  • 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes
    • Up to 128-tap texture filtering
    • 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
    • Accelerated MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264 decoding and transcoding
    • DXVA support
    • De-blocking and noise reduction filtering
    • Motion compensation, IDCT, DCT and color space conversion
    • Vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing
    • 3:2 pulldown (frame rate conversion)
  • Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
  • HDR tone mapping acceleration
    • Maps any input format to 10 bit per channel output
  • Flexible display support
    • DVI 1.0 compliant / HDMI interoperable and HDCP ready **
    • Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400 MHz DACs
    • 16 bit per channel floating point HDR and 10 bit per channel DVI output
    • Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion (10 bits per color)
    • Complete, independent color controls and video overlays for each display
    • High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all outputs
    • Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays
    • Xilleon TV encoder for high quality analog output
    • YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays*
    • Spatial/temporal dithering enables 10-bit color quality on 8-bit and 6-bit displays
    • Fast, glitch-free mode switching
    • VGA mode support on all outputs
    • 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:
    • Alternate Frame Rendering (maximum performance)
    • Supertiling (optimal load-balancing)
    • Scissor (compatibility)
    • Super AA 8x/10x/12x/14x (maximum image quality)

*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.
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  • RADEON™ X1600 XT core
  • 256MB GDDR3
  • PCI Express x16
  • CrossFire™ Support
  • Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c / OpenGL 2.0 acceleration
  • Avivo™ Technology
  • 3D Graphics Resolution of 2560x1600 Max
  • TV-Out
  • Smoothvision HD + Adaptive AA
  • Vido acceleration of :MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264
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    3 AWARDS 4


    PCM Recommend

    With the special designed heatpipe, Sapphire X1600 series provides silent cooling solution.


    NeoSeeker.com

    "...tweaks to the decently performing Ultimate cooler from last year, should serve the X1600 XT quite well in the often cramped surroundings of home theatre cases."

    NeoSeeker.com


    3 out of 5 stars

    Packing tons of features and providing the kind of performance that you have come to expect from Sapphire...you can be sure your getting a powerful card for your money. a great solution for the hardcore gamer on a budget...

    Avault


    3 1/2 CPUs

    ...shorter, lighter, cut down to a single slot, and power friendly...a solid mainstream contender...inexpensive gameway into the addicting world of multicard rendering. (Article not on-line - hard copy magazine)

    Computer Power User


    HWM Malaysia Silver Award

    Sapphire has been synonymous with goodlooking products, in terms of packaging and card itself – and they don' disappoint again. The heat sink used on this card is made from copper – the recommended material when it comes to computing to help dissipate heat the fastest way. This Sapphire card isn't just any X1600; it's the X1600 XT, the highest type of middlerange X1000 Radeon card. It gives you a good introduction to average graphics, and even makes you ready for the future by enabling an upgrade to CrossFire later.