Sapphire ATI RADEON X1950 PRO

Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro

The Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro is an AGP based graphics card for Gaming and Video applications. The GPU is based on a Radeon X1950 chipset with 36 pixel shader and 8 vertex shader processors. There is 512 MB of GDDR3 memory at an effective speed of 1400 MHz for video buffering. The card has a 256-bit, 8-channel memory interface and comes with Plug-and-Play AGP 8X bus. The card is suitable for those motherboards still having an AGP bus and cannot support PCI express.

Hardware

The hardware supports Shader Model 3.0, for programmable vertex and pixel shaders in DirectX. DirectX 9.0 and OpenGL 2.0 features are fully implemented. There is support for 2x/4x/6x antialiasing modes and upto 16x anisotropic filtering. The X1950 Pro comes with Avivo(tm) Video and Display Engine for hi-res video support. Hardware acceleration is provided for encoding and decoding of various video formats including MPEG1,2,4, DivX, WMV9 etc.

Product

The product package comes with an s-video to component adapter, clear DVI to D-sub adapters, one 4 pin y power adapter, an s-video to rca adapter, an rca male to male cable, S-Video to S-Video cable, a software driver CD and an owners manual.