PowerColor ATI Radeon X1950PRO 512MB/256bit

Silently Cooder - Arctic Cooling Accelero X2

• Unique Cooling Performance with 6 Heat Pipes
• Fully Crossfire and BTX compatible
• Voltage Converter Cooling
• Patented Vibration Absorption
• Noiseless Fan = 0.4 Sone

Features

• 36 pixel shader processors
• 8 vertex shader processors
• Up to 256-bit 8 channel GDDR3 memory interface
• Native PCI Express® x16 bus interface
• Plug-and-play (native) CrossFire™

• Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware.
• Shader Model 3.0 vertex and pixel shader support:
  • Full speed 32-bit floating point processing
  • High dynamic range rendering with floating point blending and anti-aliasing support
  • High performance dynamic branching and flow control
• Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® 2.0

• 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes:
• Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns, and centroid sampling
• New Adaptive Anti-Aliasing mode
• Temporal Anti-Aliasing
• Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1) at all resolutions, up to and including widescreen HDTV
• 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes:
• Up to 128-tap texture filtering
• Adaptive algorithm with performance and quality options
• Improved rendering with higher subpixel precision and LOD computation levels
  • New rotational high quality rendering mode
  • 3Dc+™ — Advanced Texture Compression
• High quality 4:1 compression for normal maps and luminance maps
• Works with any single-channel or two-channel data format
• High quality 4:1 compression for normal maps and luminance maps
• Works with any single-channel or two-channel data format
Ring Bus Memory Controller
• Programmable arbitration logic maximizes memory efficiency, software upgradeable
• New fully associative texture, color, and Z cache design
• 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, up to and including widescreen HDTV
Avivo™ Video and Display Engine
• New advanced video capabilities, including high fidelity gamma, color correction and scaling
• Dual independent display controllers that support true 30 bits per pixel throughout the display pipe
• Full symmetry on both heads
• Each display interface supports display resolutions beyond 2560x1600
• Advanced DVI capabilities, including 10-bit, 16-bit HDR output
• YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays
• Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
• MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration:
• DXVA support
  • 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)

CrossFire™

• Multi-GPU technology
• Four modes of operation:
  • Alternate frame rendering for maximum performance
  • Supertiling for optimal load-balancing
  • Scissoring for compatibility
  • Super AA for maximum image quality
• Native CrossFire support simplifies setup by requiring no dedicated slave or master hardware
• 24-bit CrossFire connection enables high resolutions and refresh rates
• Supports the broadest range of platforms for both Intel and AMD