RADEON Series

Radeon® X1300 Series — Step-up to serious 3D performance and image quality!

Step-up to serious 3D performance and image quality with ATI’s new Radeon® X1300 Series. For greatly enhanced visuals, the Radeon X1300 combines a radically new and efficient 3D architecture with ATI’s revolutionary new Avivo™ video and display technology. The X1300 delivers superior visual performance for all types of PC entertainment and productivity.

Whether upgrading your present PC graphics or buying a new PC, the Radeon X1300 will easily handle today’s graphics-intensive games, digital entertainment and productivity software.

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Bring Gaming Performance & Image Quality to Your PC
Are you ready to enjoy complex, movie-quality effects in your games and software applications? Now you can with the world’s most advanced 3D performance technology including: a 90-nanometer process GPU, a new ultra-threaded 3D processing architecture, an advanced memory controller and up to 512 MB RAM (DDR1/DDR2/GDDR3).

Play the latest 3D games featuring Shader Model 3.0 for advanced visual effects

Radeon X1300’s 90-nanometer process technology and ultra-threaded core architecture combines power and efficiency and supports for Shader Model 3.0 to deliver new High Dynamic Range visual effects, enhanced realism with Adaptive Anti-aliasing and lightening fast performance in OpenGL and DirectX® 9 games.

CrossFire: Multiply and Conquer with Multi-GPU Power
Designed from the ground up with GPU sharing in mind, the Radeon X1300 series allows you to get incredible gaming performance by adding a second Radeon® X1300 graphics card for ultra fast performance that works with all games, all the time.

To achieve optimal performance-class results from your Radeon X1300 CrossFire platform, combine two Radeon X1300 graphics cards with a motherboard based on ATI's CrossFire Xpress™ 1600 chipset.

Supertiling for optimized gaming performance

CrossFire’s “supertiling” GPU-sharing speeds rendering by evenly dividing the graphics processing, intelligently alternating the rendering workload to each Radeon GPU for efficient load balancing, and optimized performance.

CrossFire boosts image quality

ATI’s CrossFire boosts image quality along with rendering speed, eliminating the need to crank down screen resolutions to get the high image quality you want.

CrossFire ignites with the higher anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, shading, and texture settings you desire. Adjust your display configurations, experiment with your advanced 3D settings, and check the effect with a real-time 3D-rendered preview within ATI’s Catalyst® Control Center to rule your CrossFire system.

Upgradeable components and web support

CrossFire supports a wide range of ATI-based graphics cards and motherboards, and offers compatibility with a broad array of third party components for a flexible and robust solution.

Upgradeable components allow you to gradually improve your system performance with the reliability and support that only ATI delivers.
Free monthly on-line Catalyst software updates, ATI’s one-click comprehensive help system, and web-based online customer support are available 24 hours per day.

Brilliant New Avivo Technology for Video and Display Perfection
Connect your Radeon X1300 with your home entertainment devices for digital convergence, enhanced with ATI’s revolutionary new Avivo video and display technology platform. Avivo technology creates vibrant colors, ultra sharp images, true-to-life image reproduction, and the smoothest HD video playback ever offered by ATI.

Avivo redefines the ultimate visual experience for today’s PCs, and sets the stage for tomorrow’s exciting possibilities. Check your board for specific support of Avivo features.

Sharp video and photos

Avivo enhances your digital video and photos, creating sharp images, crisp text, and vivid color. Boost the video quality captured by your Media PC and Personal Video Recorder with advanced 3D comb filtering and automatic gain control. Improve analog video signal quality and reduce annoying artifacts. Maintain clean images even at high display resolutions with Avivo’s video scaling technology. Large or small Avivo makes your displays come to life when viewing digital photography and video

True-to-Life Image Reproduction

Get high image fidelity with CRT and LCD displays, TVs, rear projection and plasma TVs, as well as projectors. Avivo introduces new life to colors across the entire spectrum with an advanced 10-bit-per-color display engine. Gain better digital signal reception, and maintain cleaner video with hardware noise reduction. Enjoy high-quality analog video capture enabled by robust 12-bit analog-to-digital converters.

Smooth Video Playback

Free your CPU to devote more processing power to other applications with Avivo’s hardware accelerated processing. Transform your movies and improve every image sent to your display with hardware post processing for superb stutter-free viewing. Avivo gives your video playback the smooth, fluid motion you want from your digital content.

Universal Display Connectivity

Certain ATI graphics cards with Avivo technology can dissolve connectivity barriers between PCs and consumer electronic devices. Outputs for virtually any TV via analog or digital interface, such as s-video, DVI or HDMI™, are complemented by inputs for cable, broadcast TV and other video sources. And advanced dual-link DVI interfaces support the largest high-resolution LCD displays.

Catalyst Software: Customizable Performance, Control and Support
Control your Radeon X1300 with Catalyst Control Center, the award-winning feature-rich 3D software application. Catalyst automatically configures optimal settings for your system, and is packed with features that go far beyond traditional driver configuration software.

Experiment with display Settings hassle-free
Adjust your display configurations, experiment with your advanced 3D settings, and check the effect with a real-time 3D-rendered preview.

Support and updates for optimal performance and protection

Catalyst supports GPU overdrive, and automatically resets the graphics processor when necessary. Keep ahead of fast-moving gaming effects and technology changes with frequent Catalyst software updates, and discover Radeon X1300’s exceptional support for Windows XP, Windows Media Center Edition and Microsoft® Vista™.

Radeon® X1300

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