ATI Radeon X1600 Pro 512 MB PCI Express Video Card

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000ENORJI
• Item model number: 3050
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #139,234 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 17, 2006

Product Description

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Amazon.com Product Description 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.

Product Description

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. ATI's new Radeon X1600 series with astonishing graphics performance and visual quality creates a lifelike High Definition viewing experience with 3D games, DVD movies, and digital photography and video. Connect your Radeon X1600 with your home entertainment devices for high definition convergence, enhanced with ATI's revolutionary new Avivo video and display technology platform. Avivo technology creates vibrant colours, 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 today's PCs, and sets the stage for tomorrow's exciting possibilities. An ultra-threaded 3D architecture, a 256-bit ring-bus memory controller with support for up to 512 MB RAM and Shader Model 3.0, Radeon X1600's 90-nanometer process technology and ultra-threaded architecture combine power and efficiency to optimized support for Shader Model 3.0 and deliver new high dynamic range visual effects, enhanced realism with adaptive anti-aliasing and lightening fast performance in OpenGL and DirectX 9 games. Native PCI Express x16 bus interface Dynamic Voltage Control Ring Bus Memory Controller 256-bit internal ring bus for memory reads Programmable intelligent arbitration logic Fully associative texture, colour, and Z/stencil cache designs Hierarchical Z-buffer with Early Z test Lossless Z Compression (up to 48 - 1) Fast Z-Buffer Clear Z/stencil cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering VGA, DVI-I, TV outputs

Customer Reviews

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Faster video memory, January 22, 2007

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R. Norman (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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It was needed for the upgrade for Vista. It works as advertised and the price was right.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nvidia is a better choise, December 28, 2008

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Francisco Rojas - See all my reviews

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This review is from: ATI Radeon X1600 Pro 512 MB PCI Express Video Card (Personal Computers)

As an Architect and tech fan (i use complex programs like 3D studio, Autocad 2009, Impression 2009, Photoshop and Power DVD for Blu Ray paly back) i was very disappointed with ATI, first i purchase one of this, secondly i purchase another one and put in the CROSSFIRE in a capable motherboard (ASUS of curse) and the power never surpass my expectation, the programs about i talked never surpassed the performance i needed. In Linux (ubuntu) the 3d Hardware acceleration is Not Capable and this is a very disappointed from AMD-ATI. After a time i Purchase an NVIDIA Quadro FX1700 and is another story... with Nvidia all SHINE and WHISTLE in your computer...

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Worth The Money, March 7, 2007

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Sheng Xiong "rock_e_80" (MINNESOTA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ATI Radeon X1600 Pro 512 MB PCI Express Video Card (Personal Computers)

Nothing special about this video card. My old nvidia 6150 did okay, the only thing was that i couldnt turn up the graphics/antilaising/animorph up. I only saw some improvments. I play alot of Counterstrike source, and with this card, it looked better but ran somewhat laggy even when settings were set low, and even at 800x600, still lagged a bit. I have a 2.5mghtz dual core, with 2gigs of ram, so my system shouldnt have any problems running this thing. Im going to return it and spend the extra 80 bucks for a decent card. Dont waste your time and money with this junk. You'll just spend more money if your trying to get a decent gaming experience on the long run.