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MSI RX1600Pro-TD256E Video Card Review

Date Published:
04-05-2006

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Specifications:

RADEON™X1600 Pro Chipset Features and Specifications

SMARTSHADER™ HD

•	Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware
•	Shader Model 3.0 vertex and pixel sgader 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

Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering

•	2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes
-	Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns, and centroid sampling
-	New adaptive anti-aliasing mode.
-	Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1)at all resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions
-	Temporal Anti-Aliasing
•	2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes
-	Up to 128-tap texture filtering
-	Adaptive anisotropic filtering algorithm with bilinear (performance) and trilinear (quality) options

3DC+™ Advanced Texture Compression

•	High quality 4:1 Normal Map Compression
•	Works with any two-channel data format

Next-Generation HYPER Z™ Technology

•	Hierachical 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, including widescreen HDTV resolutions

Avivo™ Video and Display Engine

•	New advanced video capabilities including high fidelity gamma, colo correction and scaling
•	Dual independent display controllers that support true 30-bpp throughout the display pipe
-	Full symmetry on both heads
-	Each display controller supports display resolutions beyond 2560 x 1600
•	Advanced DVI capabilities including 10-bit, 16-bit HDR output
•	YPrPb compnent output for direct drive of HDTV displays
•	Seamless integration of pixel shaders with cideo in real time
•	VIDEOSOAP™ noise removal filtering for captured video
•	MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration
-	DXVA support
-	Hardware motion compensation, iDCT, DCT and color space coversion.
•	All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
•	Adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing and frame rate conversion (temporal filtering)

CrossFire™ Supoprt

•	Lossless Z-Buffer Compression (up to 48:1) Multi-GPU technology ready.
•	Four modes of operation
-	Alternate frame rendering for maximum performance
-	Supertiling for optimal load-balabmcing
-	Scissoring for compatibility
-	Super AA for maximum image quality

PERFORMANCES

•	Memory interface: 128-bit
•	Memory Clock Speed: 800MHz
•	Engine Clock Speed: 500MHz
•	Pixel Shader Processor: 12
•	Operating Systems Support Windows® XP / 2000
•	Power supply of 350 (and up) watt is highly recommended for system stability
•	2D Display Modes: Resolutions, colors and maximum refresh rates(Hz) in 256, 65K or 16.7M colors.

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