Price: LM55

Xpress Yourself with SAPPHIRE Xpertise!

Xperience Xotic worlds jolted to life by the industry's most feature-rich VPU, with hardware acceleration of all that DirectX® and OpenGL can bare! Xperience the stunning special effects delivered by Smartshader 2.0™'s Full Precision DX9 Shader support and lose yourself in vivid landscapes devoid of jagged edges forged by SmoothVision 2.1™'s Advanced (2x/4x/6x) AA and (2x/4x/8x/16x) AF technologies! The tools of Xtreme Xpression have arrived!

Features:

• 256MB of high performance 128-bit DDR memory accelerates all of your 3D applications
• Native x16 Lane PCI Express interface
• Four pixel pipelines
• 2 programmable vertex shader pipelines
• Double the bandwidth of AGP 8x Interface
• Full Bandwidth in both upstream and downstream
• Full Floating point shaders
• Full support for DirectX® 9.0 and the latest OpenGL® functionality
• SMARTSHADER™ 2.0 technology allows for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader support
• SMOOTHVISION™ 2.1 technology provides enhanced image quality by removing jagged edges and bringing out fine texture detail, without compromising performance
• Unique VIDEOSHADER™ engine enables seamless integration and use of pixel shaders to accelerate video processing and provide better-looking visuals
• HYPER Z™ III ensures optimized hardware performnace by discarding irrelevant data that is not visible to the end user, thus enabling new levels of rendered excitment!
• VIVO : Video-In/Video-Out Optional on certain models