POWERCOLOR RADEON X1950 PRO REVIEW

"The Powercolor Radeon x1950 Pro also featuring the Sapphire Radeon x1900 GT. The Powercolor Radeon x1950 Pro has a 5% higher clock speed, 8% higher memory speed and the same 36 pixel shaders compared to the Sapphire Radeon x1900 GT."

PowerColor x1950 Pro Features

"36 pixel shader processors. 8 vertex shader processors. Up to 256-bit 8 channel GDDR3 memory interface. Native PCI Express x16 bus interface and Plug-and-play (native) CrossFire™."

Silently Cooder - Arctic Cooling Accelero X2

"Unique Cooling Performance with 6 Heat Pipes. Fully Crossfire and BTX compatible. Voltage Converter Cooling. Patented Vibration Absorption and Noiseless Fan."

Shader Technology

"Support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware. Shader Model 3.0 vertex and pixel shader support. Full speed 32-bit floating point processing. High dynamic range rendering with floating point blending and anti-aliasing support. High performance dynamic branching and flow control and Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL 2.0."

Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering

"2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes. Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns, and centroid sampling. New Adaptive Anti-Aliasing mode. Temporal Anti-Aliasing. Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1) at all resolutions, up to and including widescreen HDTV. 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes. Up to 128-tap texture filtering. Adaptive algorithm with performance and quality options. Improved rendering with higher subpixel precision and LOD computation levels. New rotational high quality rendering mode. 3Dc+™ — Advanced Texture Compression. High quality 4:1 compression for normal maps and luminance maps. Works with any single-channel or two-channel data format. High quality 4:1 compression for normal maps and luminance maps and Works with any single-channel or two-channel data format."

Ring Bus Memory Controller

"Programmable arbitration logic maximizes memory efficiency, software upgradeable. New fully associative texture, color, and Z cache design. 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 and Optimized for performance at high display resolutions, up to and including widescreen HDTV."

Avivo™ Video and Display Engine

"New advanced video capabilities, including high fidelity gamma, color correction and scaling. Dual independent display controllers that support true 30 bits per pixel throughout the display pipe. Full symmetry on both heads. Each display interface supports display resolutions beyond 2560x1600. Advanced DVI capabilities, including 10-bit, 16-bit HDR output. YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays. Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time. MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration. DXVA support. Hardware motion compensation, iDCT, DCT and color space conversion. All-format DTV/HDTV decoding and Adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing and frame rate conversion (temporal filtering)."

CrossFire

"Multi-GPU technology. Four modes of operation. Alternate frame rendering for maximum performance. Supertiling for optimal load-balancing. Scissoring for compatibility. Super AA for maximum image quality. Native CrossFire support simplifies setup by requiring no dedicated slave or master hardware. 24-bit CrossFire connection enables high resolutions and refresh rates and Supports the broadest range of platforms for both Intel and AMD."

POWERCOLOR RADEON X1950 PRO SPECIFICATIONS