Detailed Product Description

Features of AMD-ATI Radeon x550

Get the most from your gaming, digital photography, video editing and web surfing experiences with the Radeon X550, an affordable graphics upgrade featuring ATIs industry-leading performance, technology and support.

Outstanding Gaming Experience

With the Radeon X550, your computer games come to life. The Radeon X550 supports todays top game titles and combines ATIs SmartShader and SmoothVision technologies to deliver incredible processing power and stunning 3D image quality. The Radeon X550 also fully supports Microsoft DirectX 9, ensuring that games look and play brilliantly, especially in high-definition.

Superior Visial Output

The Radeon X550 allows you to get the most from your digital still and video cameras, enabling you to see the true brilliance of your creativity, whether you are editing a video or previewing a photo before printing. The Radeon X550 pushes high-end monitors to their full capacity and maximizes the visual display capabilities of your digital input devices.

Stability and Support

The Radeon X550 is managed by ATIs award-winning ATI Catalyst software drivers, featuring the new Catalyst Control Center for exceptional visual quality, performance and stability. All ATI products are backed by ATI Customer Care and technical support. The Radeon X550 fully supports the PCI Express bus, the newest PC industry standard for delivering maximum real-time performance for your graphics intensive software applications.

GPU Specifications

Technology Features:

64-bit and 128-bit memory interface supporting 64MB or 128MB DDR1 memory configurations
Four extreme parallel 3D rendering pixel pipelines
Two programmable vertex shader pipelines
PCI Express x16 lane native support
Full Microsoft DirectX 9 support

SmartShader 2.0

SmartShader defines the level of realism in latest 2D/3D games and applications

Complete hardware-accelerated Microsoft DirectX 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shader support
Full hardware support for OpenGL

SmoothVision 2.1

SmoothVision improves image quality by smoothing jagged edges, improving blurriness and refining background details during on-screen motion and at lower resolutions.
SmoothVision settings are user-configurable in ATI Catalyst

Control Panel:

2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing (AA) modes

Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns and centroid sampling
Loss-less Color Compression (up to 6:1) at all resolutions
Temporal Anti-Aliasing

2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering (AF) modes

Up to 128-tap texture filtering
Adaptive algorithm with bilinear (performance) and trilinear (quality) options

Hyper Z III

Hyper Z ensures optimal hardware performance by discarding irrelevant object data that is not visible to end-user on their display.
Leverages key features from ATIs third generation Hyper Z III technology that conserves video memory bandwidth for improved performance in demanding 2D/3D games and applications.
Lossless Z-Buffer Compression (up to 48:1)
Fast Z-Buffer Clear
Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering

VideoShader

Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
FullStream video de-blocking technology for Real, DivX, and WMV9 formats
VideoSoap noise removal filtering for captured video
MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration
DXVA Support
Hardware Motion Compensation, iDCT, DCT and color space conversion
All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays
Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion (temporal filtering) additional features

Additional Features

Dual integrated display controllers
Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400 MHz DACs
Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI 1.0 / HDMI compliant and HDCP ready*)
Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution
Windows Logo Program compliant
ATI Catalyst Software Suite

* AMDs ATI Radeon X and Radeon 9550 series of GPUs are capable of processing HDCP signals ("HDCP ready"), however not all ATI Radeon graphics cards are HDCP ready. Please check the applicable ATI Radeon graphics card specification to determine if a particular ATI Radeon graphics card is HDCP ready. Some third parties manufacture graphics cards containing ATI Radeon GPUs -- you can inquire of them which models, if any, are HDCP ready. In addition, playing HDCP content requires additional HDCP ready components, including but not limited to an HDCP ready monitor, disc drive, multimedia application and computer operating system