Видеокарта Обзор & Features

Get the most from your gaming, digital photography, video editing and web surfing experiences with the Radeon® X550, an affordable graphics upgrade featuring ATI’s industry-leading Производительность, technology and support.

Outstanding Gaming Experience
With the Radeon X550, your computer games come to life. The Radeon X550 supports today’s top game titles and combines ATI’s SmartShader™ and SmoothVision™ technologies to deliver incredible processing Питание and stunning 3D image quality. The Radeon X550 also fully supports Microsoft® DirectX® 9, ensuring that games look and play brilliantly, especially in high-definition.

Superior Visial Output
The Radeon X550 allows you to get the most from your digital still and video cameras, enabling you to see the true brilliance of your creativity, whether you are editing a video or previewing a photo before printing. The Radeon X550 pushes high-end monitors to their full capacity and maximizes the visual display capabilities of your digital input devices.

Stability and Support
The Radeon X550 is managed by ATI’s award-winning Catalyst® software drivers, featuring the new Catalyst Control Center for exceptional visual quality, Производительность and stability. All ATI products are backed by ATI Customer Care™ and technical support. The Radeon X550 fully supports the PCI Express® bus, the newest PC industry standard for delivering maximum real-time Производительность for your graphics intensive software applications.

Видеокарта X550 Specifications

Technology Features:

• 64-bit and 128-bit Память Интерфейс supporting 64MB or 128MB DDR1 Конфигурация памятиs
• Four extreme parallel 3D rendering pixel pipelines
• Two programmable vertex shader pipelines
• PCI Express® x16 lane native support
• Full Microsoft® DirectX® 9 support

SmartShader™ 2.0

• SmartShader™ defines the level of realism in latest 2D/3D games and applications
• Complete hardware-accelerated Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shader support
• Full hardware support for OpenGL®

SmoothVision™ 2.1

• SmoothVision™ improves image quality by smoothing jagged edges, improving blurriness and refining background details during on-screen motion and at lower resolutions.
• SmoothVision™ settings are user-configurable in ATI Catalyst®

Control Panel:

• 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing (AA) modes
  • Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns and centroid sampling
  • Loss-less Color Compression (up to 6:1) at all resolutions
  • Temporal Anti-Aliasing
• 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering (AF) modes
  • Up to 128-tap texture filtering
  • Adaptive algorithm with bilinear (Производительность) and trilinear (quality) options

Hyper Z™ III

• Hyper Z™ ensures optimal hardware Производительность by discarding irrelevant object data that is not visible to end-user on their display.
• Leverages key features from ATI’s third generation Hyper Z™ III technology that conserves video Пропускная способность for improved Производительность in demanding 2D/3D games and applications.
• Lossless Z-Buffer Compression (up to 48:1)
• Fast Z-Buffer Clear
• Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering

VideoShader™

• Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
• FullStream™ video de-blocking technology for Real, DivX, and WMV9 formats
• VideoSoap™ noise removal filtering for captured video
• MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration
• DXVA Support
• Hardware Motion Compensation, iDCT, DCT and color space conversion
• All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
• YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays†
• Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion (temporal filtering) additional features

Additional Features

• Dual integrated display controllers
• Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400 MHz DACs
• Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI 1.0 / HDMI compliant and HDCP ready*)
• Integrated TV Output support up to 1024×768 resolution
• Windows® Logo Program compliant
• ATI Catalyst® Software Suite

* Currently there is no commercially available HDCP content. ATI’s Radeon® X and Radeon® 9550 серия of GPUs are capable of processing HDCP signals (“HDCP ready”), however ATI does not presently manufacture any Видеокарты which are HDCP ready. Some third parties manufacture Видеокарты containing ATI GPUs — you can inquire of them which models, if any, — are HDCP ready.

2D Display Modes
Resolutions, colors and maximum refresh rates (Hz) in 256, 65K or 16.7M colors

Maximum 3D Resolutions

* 16:9 aspect ratio monitors are supported on 1920×1080 and 848×480 on Windows® XP, Windows® 2000 and Windows® ME. The complete list of resolutions depends on the driver version and operating system. NOTE: resolutions are limited by the Производительность of the attached monitor.

† With optional HDTV adapter available from ATI Online Store