Cater to Your Creative Side!

Bringing the worlds of Gaming, TV and Video together into one gripping multimedia tool for all occasions, SAPPHIRE enthusiastically delivers the extreme in creative power, THE BEAST RADEON 9200! With features such as: TV-ON-DEMAND™, THRUVIEW™, VIDEOSOAP™, support for DirectX® 9.0 and OpenGL, the BEAST series encapsulates all that your demanding media oriented intellect desires out of your graphics card!

Features:

Powered by the RADEON™ 9200 visual processing unit

Unparalleled TV and DVD features: TV-ON-DEMAND™, Gemstar GUIDE Plus+™, mulTView™, VIDEOSOAP™, THRUVIEW™ and much more

Easily edit video into your own creations: Video CD and DVD Authoring

Radio frequency wireless remote for your PC provides a hand held 30-foot user interface. Control your mouse and PC applications at the click of a button.

Stereo TV tuner with 125 channels

Intelligent Teletext on your PC

Zoom & pan - zoom in on the action on-screen and choose your own close-ups

128MB DDR memory accelerates the latest 3D games

Double Data Rate memory removes hardware performance bottleneck and provides end users with faster 3D graphics

Driven by ATI’s Quad-pipe architecture and providing twice the rendering power of any currently competing product.

Supports the new AGP 8X standard, providing a high-speed link between the graphics board and the rest of the PC (2.0 GB/sec)

Full support for DirectX® and OpenGL® functionality

VIVO (Video-in & Video-Out) Optional

New SMARTSHADER™ technology allows users to experience complex, movie-quality effects in next-generation 3D games and applications

SMOOTHVISION™ technology enhances image quality by removing jagged edges and bringing out fine texture detail, without compromising performance

128-bit floating-point color precision allows for a greater range of colors and brightness

Unique VIDEOSHADER™ engine uses programmable pixel shaders to accelerate video processing and provide better-looking visuals

ATI's new FULLSTREAM™ technology removes blocky artifacts from Streaming and Internet video and provides sharper image quality

Available in both FULL Retail and Lite Retail Versions

Full retail indicates that the package contains the entire bundle including the Game software bundle and utilities. The Lite retail versions do not come bundled with the software bundle and are packaged with the neccessities needed to enjoy the pinnacle in performance from Sapphire alone.