SAPPHIRE RADEON X1650 PRO REVIEW
"The powerful Sapphire Radeon x1650 Pro with 256MB DDR3, Ringbus, Avivo and Crossfire is pitted against the MSI GEFORCE 6600 GT. The Sapphire Radeon x1650 Pro is almost identical to the earlier x1600 XT apart from the Sapphire Radeon x1650's lower price tag and speed increase."
"ACCELERATE YOUR TOMORROW WITH TOOLS AVAILABLE TODAY! - Capture the performance edge in computing with an upgrade to RADEON™ X1650 PRO and rest assured that your hardware can accelerate all that the eagerly anticipated Windows Vista™ 3D environment has to offer. 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 pixel pipeline architecture the 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. Accelerate your imagination and embark on a 3D desktop revolution."
RING BUS MEMORY CONTROLLERProgrammable 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 ENGINEFull 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 FEATURESIncludes 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 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 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 PLATFORMMPEG-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 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 CROSSFIREAlternate Frame Rendering (maximum performance) Supertiling (optimal load-balancing) Scissor (compatibility) Super AA 8x/10x/12x/14x (maximum image quality) |
| CHIP | CORE CLOCK |
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MEMORY TYPE |
MEMORY INTERFACE |
PIXELS PER CLOCK |
DIRECTX | PRICE |
| SAPPHIRE X1650 PRO | 600 | 1400 | 256MB DDR3 | 128 | 12 | 9.0C | $99 |
| MSI GEFORCE 6600 GT | 500 | 900 | 128MB DDR3 | 128 | 8 | 9.0C | $115 |
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