Hybrid SAPPHIRE X700 PRO

Graphics

Dawn Of A Hardware Hybrid

Erupting from the depths of a hardware stew of performance and affordability, the X700 Series presents itself as the definitive Hybrid graphic solution! Combining technologies such as 8 Pixel Shader pipes, and 6 Vertex pipelines, the X700 Hybrid series raises the threshold of believability in today's detail rich game environments.

	Full support for DirectX® 9.0 and the latest OpenGL® functionality
	New SMARTSHADER™ HD technology allows for support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware as well as OpenGL® via extensions.
	SMOOTHVISION™ HD technology provides enhanced image quality by removing jagged edges and bringing out fine texture detail, without compromising performance
	128/256MB of GDDR3 memory accelerates the latest cutting edge 3D applications
	3Dc™ High quality 4:1 Normal Map Compression delivers beautiful scenes without the performance hit.
	Unique VIDEOSHADER™ HD engine uses programmable pixel shaders to accelerate video processing and provide better-looking visuals
	HYPER Z™ HD is optimized for performance at high display resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions.

Hybrid SAPPHIRE X700 PRO

Features

4 or 8 parallel pixel pipelines
Six programmable vertex shader pipelines
110 million transistors on 0.11 micron fabrication process
64/128-bit memory interface supporting DDR SGRAM, DDR SDRAM, GDDR3 SDRAM
AGP 8x or PCI Express®x16 lane native support
Video In/Video Out board versions available

SmartShader HD

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
- 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
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

HyperZ 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, 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)

Display 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

*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
	128/256MB of GDDR3 memory accelerates the latest cutting edge 3D applications 128-bit GDDR3 memory interface 8 parallel pixel pipelines Supports the latest X16 Lane PCI Express technology Six programmable vertex shader pipelines Full support for DirectX® 9.0 and the latest OpenGL® functionality

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AWARDS

PC Weekly Recommend

PC Station Best Buy

Hardware Zone Winner Award 2005

Finding the winner for this shootout turned it out be a little tougher than we anticipated but after carefully weighing the factors, we found one card to offer pretty good stock performance and overclocking, a decent software/accessory package, reasonable price and is the coolest operating card of the lot. This was none other than Sapphire's Hybrid RADEON X700 PRO 256MB graphics card and with all those attributes, it was hard not to bestow it the Winner Of The ATI RADEON X700 PRO Shootout.

Hardwarezone.com

FiringSquad.com

Sapphire’s got all their bases covered with the Hybrid RADEON X700 PRO 256MB. You’ve got a card that delivers solid performance, runs quietly and with low temps (making it a tempting solution for small form factor applications), ships with a couple of games you may not have checked out yet, and does all this at a price point. If you’re currently gaming on an old GeForce4 or RADEON 8500 card (or older) and looking for more performance, Sapphire’s Hybrid RADEON X700 PRO is definitely worthy of consideration.

FiringSquad.com