• Powered by ATI Radeon X1600 Pro VPU
  • Supports PCI Express and 12 pipelines
  • Microsoft DirectX 9.0C and OpenGL 2.0 support
  • Integrated with 256MB GDDR2 memory and 128-bit memory interface
  • Features DVI-I / D-sub / TV-OUT
  • Supports HDTV function and HDTV cable enclosed
  • Unique Silent-Pipe design
  • 3Dc™
    3Dc is an exciting new compression technology designed to bring out fine details in games while minimizing memory usage. It is the first compression technique optimized to work with normal maps, which allow fine per-pixel control over how light reflects from a textured surface. With up to 4:1 compression possible, this means game designers can now include up to 4x the detail without changing the amount of graphics memory required and without impacting performance.
  • 90nm Technology
    Faster clocks, double the transistor density of erlier 130 nm technology. 90nm technology helped make X1000 products the most advanced GPUs ever highest clocks speeds, incredible feature integration, full performance and precision all the time, and ability to take advantage of future, higher-speed memories.
  • Avivo™
    Avivo™could provide vibrant high fidelity, flawlessly smooth next-generation video playback. Avivo™ technology easily allows your PCs to become digital home media center by its compelling video pipeline design that comprises the latest high definition video hardware acceleration, including H.264 and WMV9.
  • Catalyst™ Control Center
    ATI's all-new Catalyst Control Center goes far beyond traditional driver configuration software—it's a feature-rich and stable 3D acceleration control application that puts you in complete command of your ATI visual processing unit (VPU). Catalyst Control Center offers exceptional graphics performance and visual quality for the ultimate in performance, stability, and innovation. Safe GPU overclocking, custom profiles, and assignable hotkeys are just a few of the many new features. You'll also enjoy frequent updates, reliable customer service, and an interactive user feedback program, all backed by ATI's technical confidence, industry-leading capability, and uncompromising commitment to creating your ultimate visual experience.
  • Cross Fire™
    Multiply and Conquer with Multi-GPU Performance:CrossFire’s “supertiling” GPU sharing speeds rendering by evenly dividing the graphics processing, intelligently alternating the rendering workload to each Radeon GPU for efficient load balancing, and optimized performance.CrossFire boosts image quality along with rendering speed, eliminating the need to crank down screen resolutions to get the high image quality you want.CrossFire supports a wide range of ATI-based graphics cards and motherboards, and offers compatibility with a broad array of third party components for a flexible and robust solution.
  • GIGABYTE @VGA
    To make it easier update the VGA BIOS than before and help users update the latest VGA BIOS from Internet automatically.
  • Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0
    Provide infinite program command length creating photorealistic scenes and environments in games, without compromising overall PC performance.
  • Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0C
    Ensures the best performance and application compatibility for all DirectX 9.0C applications.
  • OpenGL 2.0® Optimizations and Support
    Ensure top-notch compatibility and performance for all OpenGL 2.0 application.
  • PCI Express
    Designed to run perfectly with the next-generation PCI Express bus architecture. This new bus doubles the bandwidth of AGP 8X delivering over 4 GB/sec. in both upstream and downstream data transfers.
  • Ring Bus Memory Technology
    *Maximum 512-bit internal ring bus for memory reads
    *Programmable intelligent arbitration logic
    *New cache design
    *Improved HyperZ™
  • RoHS Compliant
    As a citizen of the global village, GIGABYTE exert ourselves to be a pioneer in environment care. Give the whole of Earth a promise that our products do not contain any of the restricted substances in concentrations and applications banned by the RoHS Directive, and are capable of being worked on at the higher temperatures required for lead free solder. One Earth and GIGABYTE Cares!
  • Silent-Pipe Technology
    Fast heat spreading without a sound: Heat pipe is filled with liquid material to transmit the heat generated from the heat source side: GPU side, to the other side of a graphic card. Heat is to be brought by vaporized liquid to the other side of the pipe, then for capillarity force, water from cooled steam will go back to the heat source side to begin its thermal trip again, hence, Silent-Pipe enables a graphic card to run quiet and fast to meet the needs of users who has a preference for tranquility at work.
  • 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 maximum 512 simultaneous pixel threads
    *Dedicated brach execution units for high performance dynamic branching and flow control
    *Dedicated texture address units for improved efficiency
  • Widescreen resolution support
    ResolutionColors (bits) Refresh Rate (Hz)
    16:10
    1920 x 12008/16/3275
    16:9
    1920 x 10808/16/3285

    *Resolutions are limited by the performance of the attached monitor. 16:9 / 16:10 aspect ratio monitors are only supported on Windows® XP. The complete list of resolutions depends on the driver version and operating system.
  • Windows Vista® Ready
    Prepare your PC with a graphics card that beats Microsoft's stated GPU requirements for a premium Windows Vista experience.
  • GIGABYTE V-tuner3
    GIGABYTE's monitoring and overclocking tool V-tuner 3 enables users to dynamically optimize the memory and GPU frequencies; moreover, demonstrates real-time temperature for models integrated with hardware thermal sensor chip.

    What's new with V-tuner3:
    *Auto detect most suitable OC Clock
    *Resume back to original CLK(BIOS Clock) while abnormal shut down
    *Use GPU internal Diode to get temp information, no more H/W monitor chip
    *Show 2D/3D CLK at the same time and tuning separately
    *Save CLK to enable OC every booting
  • Display Support
    *Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for analog display resolutions up to and including 2048x1536 at 85Hz .
    *Dual-link DVI capability to drive the industry's largest and highest resolution digital flat panel displays up to 2560x1600 at 60 Hz.
    *Integrated HDTV encoder provides analog TV-output (Component/Composite/S-Video) up to 1080i resolution....more information

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* Due to standard PC architecture, a certain amount of memory is reserved for system usage and therefore the actual memory size is less than the stated amount.