ATI Radeon X1600 Pro 512 MB PCI Express Video Card

For outstanding digital entertainment and 3-D graphics, look no further than the Radeon X1600 Pro with a PCI Express interface. The card is designed to transform your PC with astonishing graphics performance and visual quality, creating a lifelike high-definition (HD) viewing experience with 3-D games, DVD movies, and digital photography and video.

157 million transistors, a 90nm fabrication process, 12 pixel shader processors, 5 vertex shader processors, 512 MB of 128-bit, 4-channel GDDR3 memory. Sound good? View larger.

Performance, by the Numbers
Under the hood you'll find 157 million transistors on a 90nm fabrication process; 12 pixel shader processors; 5 vertex shader processors; 512 MB of 128-bit, 4-channel GDDR3 memory; and an external bridge chip that supports AGP 4x and 8x interfaces. The card also features a ring bus memory controller for 256-bit memory reads, which is optimized for performance at high-display resolutions.

The Radeon X1600 also supports impressive shader performance with Shader Model 3.0--now you can see incredible details never before visible. The X1600 also allows you to experience simultaneous high dynamic range rendering and advanced adaptive anti-aliasing for incredible enhancements to lighting contour and color details. Take the edge off of jagged wires and strands of hair, while experiencing photorealistic lighting.

Home Theater Compatibility
ATI's Avivo technology, which is integrated into the X1600, promises a high-definition visual experience, delivering sharper photos, smoother video, true-to-life image representation, and universal display connectivity for driving HD displays. High-definition images come to life with remarkable clarity and color. Plus, Avivo's universal connectivity allows you to create your ideal display setup. The technology also offers accelerated MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264 decoding, encoding, and transcoding. In the display support department you get an integrated dual-link DVI connector, plus compliance with HDMI and HDCP connections. There's even a component output for direct connections to HDTV displays.

Lose the jaggies! Hardware anti-aliasing makes your games more realistic.

What's in the Box
Radeon X1600 series graphics card, composite and S-video cables, HDTV out cable, DVI to VGA adapters, and setup CD.