Pushing the Performance Threshold!
Navigate distant worlds built around lush organic environments brimming with life and vibrant textures rendered in High-Definition clarity with the awesome power of the next generation SAPPHIRE X850 XT Platinum Edition!

Features

* Over 160 million transistors
* Up to sixteen parallel pixel pipelines
* Six parallel vertex processing engines
* 256-bit quad-channel GDDR3 memory interface
* AGP ® x16 lane native support

SmartShader HD

* Full hardware acceleration of Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware
* DirectX 9.0 Vertex Shaders
o Vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with flow control
o Single cycle trigonometric operations (SIN & COS)
* Direct X 9.0 Extended Pixel Shaders
o Up to 1,536 instructions and 16 textures per rendering pass
o 32 temporary and constant registers
o Facing register for two-sided lighting
o 128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point color formats
o Multiple Render Target (MRT) support
* Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® via extensions

SmoothVision HD

* 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes
o Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns, and centroid sampling
o Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1) at all resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions
o Temporal Anti-Aliasing
* 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes
o Up to 128-tap texture filtering per AA sample
o Adaptive anisotropic filtering 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, WMV9, and WMV10 formats
* VideoSoap noise removal filtering for captured video
* MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration
o DXVA Support
o Hardware Motion Compensation, iDCT, DCT and color space conversion
* All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
* 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
* YPrPb component output for HDTV display connection*
* Single and dual link external TMDS transmitter support for high resolution and/or multi-monitor DVI configurations
* Compatible with ATIs THEATER video decode and capture devices for VIVO (Video Input / Video Output) configurations