Radeon® X1950 XTX Features 1

CHAPTER 1:

Introduction

Congratulations on the purchase of your ATI Radeon® X1950 XTX graphics card. We hope that you will enjoy countless hours of trouble-free computing.

Radeon® X1950 XTX Features

Graphic Features

•Native PCI Express® X16 bus support.

•256MB or 512 MB GDDR4\GDDR3 on-board memory.

•Full support for Microsoft ® DirectX® Shader Model 3.0.

•High performance Ultra-Threaded shader engine.

•Eight vertex shader processors.

•Forty-eight pixel shader processors.

•512-bit internal ring-bus memory controller.

•256-bit 8-channel memory interface.

•Native PCI Express® x16 bus interface.

SmoothVision™

•Full-scene anti-aliasing method that smooths uneven edges and improves blurred images.

•2x/4x/6x Anti-aliasing modes with a loss-less compression up to a ratio of 6:1 at all resolutions.

•2x/4x//8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes with up to 128-tap texture filtering.

HyperZ™

•Ensures optimal hardware performance by discarding irrelevant object data that is not visible to the user.