Introduction
Thanks to MSI for sending us their FIRST/ONLY sample of the ATI RX850XT video card. This card is based on the Radeon X850 chipset architecture and is, at the moment, the fastest card on the market. With 16 pixel pipelines and up to 43 billion shaders per second, the fastest and the most valuable card for gamers.
The RX850XT from MSI delivers great multimedia experiences for online streaming video and ofcourse DVD playback. With the advanced hardware acceleration onboard reduces it the CPU utilization and that increases the system performance.
The RX850XT from MSI also delivers great analog and digital output for the best gaming and multimedia experiences. Everything is configurable with the Catalyst Control Center.
Lets have a look at the product specifications:
Technology Features:
- Over 160 million transistors
- Up to sixteen parallel pixel pipelines
- Six parallel vertex processing engines
- 256-bit quad-channel GDDR3 memory interface
- PCI Express x16 lane native support
Performance Specifications:
- Memory interface: 256-bit
- Memory Clock Speed: 1180MHz
- Engine Clock Speed: 540MHz
- Memory Bandwidth: 37.8GB/sec
- Peak Pixel Fill Rate: 8.6GB/s
- Transform Rate: 810 million vertices/sec
- Textures applied per pass: supports up to 16 textures per pass
- Dual RAMDACs: 400MHz
Other Features:
- SmartShader HD
- SmoothVision HD
- 3DC
- Hyper Z
- VideoShader HD
Display Features:
- Dual integrated display controllers
- Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400 MHz DACs Integrated
- 165MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI 1.0 / HDMI compliant and HDCP ready)
- Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution
- YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays
Resolution Support
- 640 x 480 200Hz
- 800 x 600 200Hz
- 1024 x 768 200Hz
- 1152 x 864 200Hz
- 1280 x 1024 160Hz
- 1600 x 1200 120Hz
- 1920 x 1080 120Hz
- 1920 x 1200 100Hz
- 1920 x 1440 90Hz
- 2048 x 1536 85Hz
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