ATI Radeon X1K Refresh: X1950 XTX, X1900 XT 256MB, X1650 Pro, and X1300 XT
Radeon X1650 Pro: Mainstream
ATI is also announcing a new graphics card today targeted at mainstream users, the Radeon X1650 Pro. The new Radeon X1650 Pro is basically an evolution of the Radeon X1600 XT, but with slightly higher clock speeds and a lower introductory price-point.
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Sapphire Radeon X1650 Pro
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ATI Radeon X1650 Pro |
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Features - 157 million transistors on 90nm fabrication process - Dual-link DVI - Twelve pixel shader processors - Five vertex shader processors - 128-bit 4-channel DDR/DDR2/GDDR3 memory interface - Native PCI Express x16 bus interface o AGP 8x configurations also supported with AGP-PCI-E external bridge chip - Dynamic Voltage Control Ring Bus Memory Controller - 256-bit internal ring bus for memory reads - Programmable 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 Engine - Support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware - Full 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 o High quality 4:1 compression for normal maps and two-channel data formats o 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 Features - 64-bit floating point HDR rendering supported throughout the pipeline o Includes support for blending and multi-sample anti-aliasing - 32-bit integer HDR (10:10:10:2) format supported throughout the pipeline o Includes support for blending and multi-sample anti-aliasing - 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes - Multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sparse sample patterns, and centroid sampling o New Adaptive Anti-Aliasing feature with Performance and Quality modes o Temporal Anti-Aliasing mode - Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1) at all resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions - 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes o Up to 128-tap texture filtering o Adaptive algorithm with Performance and Quality options - High resolution texture support (up to 4k x 4k) |
Avivo Video and Display Platform - High performance programmable video processor - Accelerated MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264 decoding and transcoding o DXVA support o De-blocking and noise reduction filtering o Motion compensation, IDCT, DCT and color space conversion o Vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing o 3:2 pulldown (frame rate conversion) - Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time - HDR tone mapping acceleration o Maps any input format to 10 bit per channel output - Flexible display support o DVI 1.0 compliant / HDMI interoperable o Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400 MHz DACs o 16 bit per channel floating point HDR and 10 bit per channel DVI output o Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion (10 bits per color) o Complete, independent color controls and video overlays for each display o High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all outputs o Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays o Xilleon TV encoder for high quality analog output o YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays* o Spatial/temporal dithering enables 10-bit color quality on 8-bit and 6-bit displays o Fast, glitch-free mode switching o VGA mode support on all outputs o Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates - Compatible with ATI TV/Video encoder products, including Theater 550 CrossFire - Multi-GPU technology - Four modes of operation: o Alternate Frame Rendering (maximum performance) o Supertiling (optimal load-balancing) o Scissor (compatibility) o Super AA 8x/10x/12x/14x (maximum image quality)
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The Radeon X1650 Pro will be the fastest card in the Radeon X1600 family. The GPU on this card is comprised of roughly 157 million transistors, and features 12-pixel shader processors, 5-vertex shader processors, two dual-link DVI outputs, a single-slot cooler, and a 128-bit 4-channel memory interface. The Radeon X1650 Pro sports 256MB of RAM clocked at 1.4GHz and a GPU core clocked at 600MHz. The Radeon X1600 XT - formerly the fastest of the X1600-based cards - shipped with its GPU clocked at 590MHz and its RAM clocked at 1.38GHz. The X1650 Pro's slight clock speed boost give it a slight edge in performance over the XT.
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The Radeon X1650 Pro we tested came by way of Sapphire Tech. For all intents and purposes, the Sapphire Radeon X1650 Pro will be identical to a "Built-by-ATI" card in just about every way except for its bundle. Sapphire ships their card with a complete user's manual, a driver / utility CD, an HD component output dongle, a composite video cable, an S-Video to RCA adapter, and a DVI-to-DB15 monitor adapter. ATI-built versions of the card will likely feature a more subdued bundle if history is any indicator.
