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Radeon® X1950
Radeon® X1950 Graphics Technology – Overview
Radeon™ X1950 graphics. Never compromise.
With the Radeon™ X1950, your graphics performance will never be compromised.
Imagine games with hyper realistic light blooms, lifelike skin textures,
and silky smooth hair. Now imagine the non-stop action packed gaming on a
CrossFire™ platform – the only choice for hardcore gamers.
That’s what it’s like with the Radeon X1950, ATI’s fastest
and most flexible 3D processor. All gaming, all the time. Radeon™ graphics.
Never comprise.
ATI’s fastest multi-GPU platform Unite the power of two graphics cards to accelerate your games even
further with CrossFire – the new reference for hardcore gaming.
Faster Clock Speeds – 1.0 GHz Experience stunning 3D graphics in today’s most advanced
games courtesy of the latest memory support (up to GDDR4) and Shader
Model 3.0.
Characters and Settings Come to Life
Watch your characters and their surroundings come to life with simultaneous adaptive
anti-aliasing and high dynamic range lighting effects.
Game on Large High-Definition Displays Display your graphics however you like, on a large screen
flat panel, a projector, or in a multiple-monitor environment.
Over 1 Billion Colors1 and Multi-Format HD Content Rediscover your photos and video in stunning clarity with
over a billion colours and ready your system for HDCP2 and multi-format
high-definition content.
1 The Radeon™ X1950 XTX can display 1.07 billion colors when attached
to 10-bit displays
2 Playing HDCP content requires additional HDCP ready components,
including but not limited to an HDCP ready monitor, disc drive, multimedia
application and computer operating system.
Feel the power of ATI’s fastest multi-GPU platform
A game powered by the Radeon X1950 is a beautiful thing to behold. Its sophisticated
architecture employs Shader Model 3.0, enables simultaneous high dynamic
range lighting effects and full screen anti-aliasing, and supports up to
512 MB GDDR4 memory for incredibly fast frame buffering.
Unite the power of two graphics cards to accelerate your games
even further with CrossFire – the new reference for hardcore
gaming
Add a Radeon™ X1950 Crossfire™ Edition graphics card for
ultra fast performance that works with all games, all the time.
Experience stunning 3D graphics in today’s most advanced
games courtesy of the latest memory support (up to GDDR4) and
Shader Model 3.0
The Radeon X1950 delivers unparalleled shader performance
thanks to it ultra-fast implementation of Shader Model 3.0.
It also supports GDDR4
memory to enable extraordinarily fast frame buffering.
Watch your characters and their surroundings come to life with adaptive
anti-aliasing and high dynamic range lighting effects
The Radeon™ X1K family are the only graphics boards on the market to
combine Full Screen Antialiasing (FSAA)—the most advanced anti-aliasing
technique in the world—with high dynamic range (HDR) technology.
HDR mimics the human eye by displaying a broader range of colors
within a scene.
This allows for a wider spectrum of lighting effects, providing
realistic shadows around buildings and landscape.
Browse store shelves with confidence, knowing your system can conquer each
and every game you see
In the world of games, every second counts; the slightest
stutter or delay could mean the difference between life
and death. The Radeon X1950
delivers maximum stability for all of today ’s top titles.
Make the most of your PC
The Radeon X1950 is the ultimate upgrade for your multimedia
system. It sets an industry standard for image quality in photos
and DVD movies and provides full support for HDCP content2.
Rediscover your photos and video with the Avivo™ video
and display engine and experience a billion more colors1 than ever before
Avivo’s
10-bit-per-color display engine renders one billion more
colors, resulting in images that are clean, sharp, and brilliant.
It
also uses ATI’s Xillion™ and Theater™ technologies,
which are found inside many of today ’s best digital
high-definition TVs.
Ready your multimedia system for HDCP and watch
high-definition conten
The
X1950 supports High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP),
a method of digital rights management that protects content.
With a graphics card and a monitor that supports HDCP you
can view this copy protected high-definition content.
A flexible, fully loaded, and future-looking graphics solution
The Radeon X1950 is designed to turn your system into the ultimate gaming
platform. It will prepare your system for Windows Vista™3, ensure that
you get the most out of your high definition display, and prime your PC for
future video technologies.
Take advantage of Windows Vista™ user interface and multimedia
features
The Radeon X1950 is a recommended graphics board for Windows
Vista, Microsoft’s soon-to-be-released operating system. It provides full
support for Vista’s image-intensive features,
including Aeroglass, and enhances gaming, digital
photo, and multimedia applications.
Take control with a high-performing upgradeable gaming PC, powered by the
most explosive multi-GPU platform
Gaming PCs give users a greater selection of
games, can be tweaked and configured for optimal
performance, have more available accessories and
can be upgraded or expanded when more performance
is needed. Put ATI’s
fastest multi-GPU platform at the heart of your
system to experience games in full detail and prepare
for the future of gaming.
Display your graphics however you like, on a large screen flat panel, a
projector, or in a multiple-monitor environment
ATI’s Avivo technology provides flexible connectivity,
delivers high-performance support for high resolution
DVI displays, supports multiple-monitor environments
and enables simultaneous S-video and composite
video output at independent
resolutions.
1 The Radeon™ X1950 XTX can display 1.07 billion colors when attached
to 10-bit displays
2 Playing HDCP content requires additional HDCP ready components, including
but not limited to an HDCP ready monitor, disc drive, multimedia application
and computer operating system.
3 On PCs configured to Microsoft Windows Vista™ Premium
system requirements, this product supports the Premium Windows Aero™ User
Experience within: Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Vista Home Premium,
Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise. Details at >
384 million transistors on 90nm fabrication process
Up to 48 pixel shader processors
8 vertex shader processors
Up to 256-bit 8-channel GDDR4 memory interface
Native
PCI Express x16 bus interface
Ring Bus Memory Controller
Up to 512-bit internal ring bus for memory
reads
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
Optimized for performance at high display resolutions,
including widescreen HDTV resolutions
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 512 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
High quality 2:1 compression for luminance maps
and single-channel data formats
Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® 2.0
Advanced Image Quality Features
64-bit floating point HDR rendering supported throughout the pipeline
Includes support for blending and multi-sample anti-aliasing
32-bit integer HDR (10:10:10:2) format supported throughout the
pipeline
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
New Adaptive Anti-Aliasing feature with Performance and
Quality modes
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
Up to 128-tap texture filtering
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
DXVA support
De-blocking and noise reduction filtering
Motion compensation, IDCT, DCT and color space conversion
Vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing
3:2 pulldown (frame rate conversion)
Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
HDR tone mapping acceleration
Maps any input format to 10 bit per channel output
Flexible display support
Dual integrated dual-link DVI transmitters
DVI 1.0 compliant / HDMI interoperable and HDCP ready*
Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400 MHz DACs
16 bit per channel floating point HDR and 10 bit per channel
DVI output
Programmable piecewise linear gamma
correction, color correction, and color
space conversion
(10 bits per
color)
Complete, independent color controls
and video overlays for each display
High quality pre- and post-scaling
engines, with underscan support for
all outputs
Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering
for interlaced displays
Xilleon™ TV encoder for high quality analog output
YPrPb component output for direct drive
of HDTV displays
Spatial/temporal dithering enables
10-bit color quality on 8-bit
and 6-bit displays
Fast, glitch-free mode switching
VGA mode support on all outputs
Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions
and refresh rates
Compatible with ATI TV/Video
encoder products, including
Theater 550
* Playing HDCP content requires additional HDCP ready
components, including but not limited to an HDCP ready monitor, disc
drive, multimedia application and computer operating system.
