Passive Cooling for the Aggressive Gamer

Experience the performance edge in computing without the added distractions of noisy coolers with an upgrade to completely silent ULTIMATE RADEON™ X1650 PRO and rest assured that your hardware can accelerate all that the eagerly anticipated Windows Vista™ 3D environment has to offer. A tool for the mainstream enthusiast, the Sapphire X1650 PRO 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™ X1650 PRO core, a robust onboard memory configuration and 12 shader unit architecture the ULTIMATE X1650 PRO 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® Windows Vista™ ensures future compatibility and that you will not have to limit your fantasies to just your desktop. Limit the distractions of noisy PC fans and enjoy a true media experience without the auditory interruptions with the SAPPHIRE ULTIMATE series!

RADEON™ X1650 PRO core (600MHz)
CrossFire™ Support
256MB GDDR3 Onboard Memory (1400MHz)
Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0
Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ready
12 Shader Unit architecture
PCI-Express
Smoothvision HD + Adaptive AA
Avivo™ Technology
Passive Cooled - 8mm heatpipe and radiator array
 
 
ULTIMATE SAPPHIRE X1650 PRO
 
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™ X1650 PRO core
  • 256MB GDDR3
  • PCI Express x16
  • CrossFire™ Support
  • Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c / OpenGL 2.0 acceleration
  • Avivo™ Technology
  • Passive Cooled - 8mm heatpipe and radiator array
  • 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


    Driver Heaven Editors Choice

    The card runs cool courtesy of the well designed cooler and thanks to ATI’s AVIVO technology it is just as capable of rendering HD video as any of ATI’s recent higher end cards

    DriverHeaven


    Driver Heaven Editors Choice

    It can comfortably power most games at 720p resolution while enveloping you in total silence

    DriverHeaven


    Elite Innovation Award

    Reasonable performance coupled with good image quality for casual gamers, comprehensive video playback capabilities courtesy of ATI's AVIVO technology, and (of course) that passive cooler, which will catch the eye of anyone wanting to build a silent machine

    Elite Bastards


    Chip TIP Hot



    PC PowerPlay Value Award

    Good performance for price, plus Just Cause.