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The Radeon X1600 series is designed to deliver outstanding digital
entertainment and 3D graphics through its unique ultra-threaded
architecture and Avivo video and display technology. The X1600 is
CrossFire Ready to deliver the ultimate gaming performance.
ATIs Radeon X1600 series transforms your PC with astonishing
graphics performance and visual quality, creating a lifelike High
Definition (HD) viewing experience with 3D games, DVD movies, and
digital photography and video.
Radeon X1600 is an ideal product for the working demands and
entertainment pleasures of tomorrow.
* ATIs Avivo- Video & Display Perfection
Connect your Radeon X1600 with your home entertainment devices for high
definition convergence, enhanced with ATIs revolutionary new Avivo
video and display technology platform. Avivo technology creates vibrant
colors, ultra sharp images, true-to-life image reproduction, and the
smoothest HD video playback ever offered by ATI.
Avivo redefines the ultimate visual experience for todays PCs, and sets
the stage for tomorrows exciting possibilities. Check your board for
specific support of Avivo features.
* State-of-the-Art 3D Performance Technology
Experience state-of-the-art graphics technology and enjoy unparalleled
gaming with the most advanced 3D performance technology including a new
ultra-threaded 3D architecture, a 256-bit ring-bus memory controller,
support for up to 512 MB RAM and Shader Model 3.0 done right. All
delivered using the most advance 90 nanometer GPU process.
* CrossFire: Multiply and Conquer with Multi-GPU Performance
Designed from the ground up with GPU sharing in mind, the Radeon X1600
allows you to get incredible gaming performance by adding a Radeon X1600
Crossfire Edition graphics card for ultra fast performance that works
with all games, all the time.
* Catalyst Software: Customizable Performance, Control and Support
Control your Radeon X1600 with ATIs Catalyst Control Center, the award-
winning feature-rich 3D software application. Catalyst automatically
configures optimal settings for your system, and is packed with features
that go far beyond traditional driver configuration software.
* 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 128 simultaneous pixel threads
- Dedicated branch execution units for high performance dynamic
branching and flow control.
- Dedicated texture address units for improved efficiency
- 3Dc+ texture compression
- High quality 4:1 compression for normal maps and two-channel data
formats.
- High quality 2:1 compression for luminance maps and single-channel
data formats.
- Multiple Render Target (MRT) support
- Render to vertex buffer support
- Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL 2.0
* Advanced Image Quality Features
- 64-bit floating point HDR rendering supported throughout the pipeline
- Includes support for blending and multi-sample anti-aliasing
- 32-bit integer HDR (10:10:10:2) format supported throughout the
pipeline.
- Includes support for blending and multi-sample anti-aliasing
- 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes
- Multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sparse
sample patterns, and centroid sampling.
- New Adaptive Anti-Aliasing feature with Performance and Quality
modes.
- Temporal Anti-Aliasing mode
- Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1) at all resolutions,
including widescreen HDTV resolutions.
- 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes
- Up to 128-tap texture filtering
- Adaptive algorithm with Performance and Quality options
- High resolution texture support (up to 4k x 4k)
* Avivo Video and Display Platform
- High performance programmable video processor
- Accelerated MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264 decoding
and transcoding.
- DXVA support
- De-blocking and noise reduction filtering
- Motion compensation, IDCT, DCT and color space conversion
- Vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing
- 3:2 pulldown (frame rate conversion)
- Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
- HDR tone mapping acceleration
- Maps any input format to 10 bit per channel output
- Flexible display support
- DVI 1.0 compliant/HDMI interoperable and HDCP ready
- Dual integrated 10-bit per channel 400 MHz DACs
- 16-bit per channel floating point HDR and 10 bit per channel DVI
output.
- Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction,
and color space conversion (10-bits per color).
- Complete, independent color controls and video overlays for each
display.
- High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support
for all outputs.
- Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays
- Xilleon TV encoder for high quality analog output
- YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays
- Spatial/temporal dithering enables 10-bit color quality on 8-bit
and 6-bit displays.
- Fast, glitch-free mode switching
- VGA mode support on all outputs
- Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and
refresh rates.
- Compatible with ATI TV/Video encoder products, including Theater 550.
* CrossFire
- Multi-GPU technology
- Four modes of operation:
- Alternate Frame Rendering (maximum performance)
- Supertiling (optimal load-balancing)
- Scissor (compatibility)
- Super AA 8x/10x/12x/14x (maximum image quality)

-- SPECIFICATIONs -----------------------------------
INTERFACE/BUS- PCI Express, native x16 lane
MEMORY- 512MB DDR SDRAM
128-bit 4-channel DDR/DDR2/GDDR3 memory interface
CHIPSET - ATI RADEON X1600 Pro
157 million transistors on 90nm fabrication process
Twelve pixel shader processors
Five vertex shader processors
CONNECTORs - (1) 7-pin S-Video/Composite port
(2) 24-pin DVI-I ports
O/S SUPPORT - Windows XP, Windows XP x64 Edition, Windows Media Center
Edition 2005, Windows Vista.
REQUIREMENTS - PCI Express based PC is required with one x16 lane graphics
slot available on the motherboard.
256MB of System Memory
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
DVD playback requires DVD drive and decoder software (not
included).
To complete the CrossFire platform, any PCI Express Radeon
X1600 graphics card and a CrossFire Ready motherboard are
also required.
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