Sapphire Radeon HD 2600 XT GDDR3

ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 XT, 256 MB, PCI-E, DUAL-DVI-I, HDMI Experience True High-Definition Gaming in 1080p!
Are you ready for the next evolutionary step in HD gaming? Experience DirectX® 10 gaming and HD media PC features with the Sapphire ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 XT. No longer are you chained to the confining dimensions of traditional PC screens, step outside the ordinary and into a world of big screen HD content playback with HDMI support provided with the Sapphire 2600 XT. Experience next generation hardware that promises immersive high definition gaming for Windows Vista™ and DirectX® 10, while allowing for easy CrossFire™ multi-GPU upgradeability, to run the hottest titles of today and tomorrow. Delivering a fully loaded HD feature-set including support for ATI Avivo™ HD, HDMI connect ability, HD Audio and Blu-ray / HD DVD decoding via Universal Video Decoding technology, the Sapphire 2600 XT far surpasses the demands of the performance hungry Media PC. The Sapphire Radeon™ HD 2600 XT with its impressive hardware offerings such as: the much anticipated ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 XT GPU, support for up to 512MB of onboard memory, 128-bit memory interface, and PCI Express native support will empower even the casual user to experience big screen HD gaming on a budget and provide the rendering muscle to drive the feature rich Windows Vista™ 3D environment.

ATI RADEON™ HD 2600XT
-390 million transistors on 65nm fabrication process.
-128-bit DDR2/GDDR3/GDDR4 memory interface.
-Ring Bus Memory Controller:
--Fully distributed design with 256-bit internal ring bus for memory reads and writes.
-Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture:
--120 stream processing units :
---Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders.
---Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders.
---Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors.
--128-bit floating point precision for all operations.
--Command processor for reduced CPU overhead.
--Shader instruction and constant caches.
--Up to 40 texture fetches per clock cycle.
--Up to 128 textures per pixel.
--Fully associative multi-level texture cache design.
--DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression.
--High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192).
--Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs.
--Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer.
--Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear.
--Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1).
--Lossless color compression (up to 8:1).
--8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support.
--Physics processing support.
-Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10.0
--Shader Model 4.0.
--Geometry Shaders.
--Stream Output.
--Integer and Bitwise Operations.
--Alpha to Coverage.
--Constant Buffers.
--State Objects.
--Texture Arrays.
-Dynamic Geometry Acceleration:
--High performance vertex cache.
--Programmable tessellation unit.
--Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification.
--Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance.
-Anti-aliasing features:
--Multi-sample anti-aliasing (up to 8 samples per pixel).
--Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality.
--Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling.
--Temporal anti-aliasing.
--Gamma correct.
--Super AA (CrossFire configurations only).
--All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering.
-Texture filtering features:
--2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel).
--128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering.
--Bicubic filtering.
--sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma).
--Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF).
--Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support.
--Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support.
-CrossFire™ Multi-GPU Technology:
--Scale up rendering performance and image quality with 2 or more GPUs.
--Integrated compositing engine.
--High performance dual channel interconnect.
-ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform:
--Dedicated unified video decoder (UVD) for H.264/AVC and VC-1 video formats:
---High definition (HD) playback of both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats.
--Hardware MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4/DivX video decode acceleration:
---Motion compensation and iDCT (inverse discrete cosine transform).
--Avivo Video Post Processor:
---Color space conversion.
---Chroma subsampling format conversion.
---Horizontal and vertical scaling.
---Gamma correction.
--High Quality Video Post Processing:
---Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing.
---De-blocking and noise reduction filtering.
---Detail enhancement.
---Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction).
---Bad edit correction.
--Two independent display controllers:
---Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video overlays for each display.
---Full 30-bit display processing.
---Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion.
---Spatial/temporal dithering provides 30-bit color quality on 24-bit and 18-bit displays.
---High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all display outputs.
---Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays.
---Fast, glitch-free mode switching.
---Hardware cursor.
--Two integrated dual-link DVI display outputs:
---Each supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI)1.
---Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content2.
--Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs:
---Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x15361.
--HDMI output support:
---Supports all display resolutions up to 1920x10801.
---Integrated HD audio controller with multi-channel (5.1) AC3 support, enabling a plug-and-play cable-less audio solution.
--Integrated AMD Xilleon™ HDTV encoder:
---Provides high quality analog TV output (component/S-video/composite).
---Supports SDTV and HDTV resolutions.
---Underscan and overscan compensation.
--MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264/AVC encoding and transcoding .
--Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time.
--VGA mode support on all display outputs.
-PCI Express x16 bus interface.
-OpenGL 2.0 support.

Features:
-390 million transistors on 65nm fabrication process.
-128-bit DDR2/GDDR3/GDDR4 memory interface.
-Ring Bus Memory Controller.
-Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture.
-Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10.0.
-Dynamic Geometry Acceleration.
-Anti-aliasing features.
-Texture filtering features.
-CrossFire™ Multi-GPU Technology.
-ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform.
-Hardware processed 1080p video playback of Blu-ray™ and HD DVDs.
-Plug-n-play CrossFire™ upgradeability.
-HDMI with 5.1 surround sound audio (Important Information for Windows XP & Windows Vista users).
-DirectX® 10 support.