Blockbuster Graphics Performance for High-Definition Gaming!
The RADEON X850 series is the most extreme gaming graphics card ever created by ATI, with up to 16 pipelines, the fastest frame rates and ATIs industry-leading 3D image enhancement technology. The RADEON X850 series delivers further on the promise of High-Definition Gaming.
INTRODUCING THE MOST ADVANCED GAMING CARD
The RADEON X850 series advances High-Definition Gaming with blockbuster features, including SMARTSHADER HD, ATIs highly advanced pixel shader engine. With up to 16 parallel pixel pipelines and up to 43 billion shader operations per second, the RADEON X850 series delivers the power serious gamers need. SMOOTHVISION HD combines advanced texture filtering with ATIs revolutionary 3Dc image enhancement technology to deliver brilliant image quality without comprising performance. 3Dc has quickly become an industry standard for supporting complex, high-definition visual effects in real time. HYPERZ HD, ATIs intelligent data compression technology, enables the RADEON X850 series to optimize available memory bandwidth for ultra-high resolution 3D gaming and ultra-fast performance. The result is the most extreme gaming experience ever, making this the ultimate graphics card for serious gamers.
THE SOLUTION FOR EXTREME GAMING
With its sophisticated board design, the RADEON X850 series is the ultimate technology for todays newest and most demanding games. Power throttling technology together with the complex fan control system vastly improves overall stability and performance. The RADEON X850 series also features ATIs incredible display architecture, now with dual-DVI support. With output to HDTV capability, big screen multimedia and gaming is now larger and sharper than ever before. Users can simultaneously view on analog and digital monitors, including TV or HDTV, for the ultimate gaming, multimedia and applications multitasking experience.
ULTIMATE PERFORMANCE AND STABILITY
The RADEON X850 series features ATIs all-new CATALYST Control Center, the award-winning application that is revolutionizing how users interact with their graphics software. CATALYST Control Center delivers the industrys most stable 3D acceleration control software, providing exceptional graphics performance and breathtaking visual quality, while giving users complete command of their graphics processing unit.
TOMORROW'S VIDEO EXPERIENCE TODAY
With VIDEOSHADER HD, the RADEON X850 series delivers a futuristic multimedia experience for Internet streaming video and DVD playback. The RADEON X850 offers advanced hardware acceleration of video for reduced CPU utilization which increases overall system performance. Comprehensive support for industrystandard video formats, such as MPEG1/2/4, Real Media, DivX and WMV9 is also included. ATIs FULLSTREAM video processing technology further sharpens streaming video playback image quality.
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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 SMARTSHADER HD Full hardware acceleration of Microsoft DirectX 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware DirectX 9.0 Vertex Shaders - Vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with flow control - Single cycle trigonometric operations (SIN & COS) DirectX 9.0 Extended Pixel Shaders - Up to 1,536 instructions and 16 textures per rendering pass - 32 temporary and constant registers - Facing register for two-sided lighting - 128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point color formats - Multiple Render Target (MRT) support Complete feature set supported in OpenGL via extensions SMOOTHVISION HD 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns, and centroid sampling Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1) at all resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions Temporal Anti-Aliasing 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes - Up to 128-tap texture filtering per AA sample - Adaptive anisotropic filtering algorithm with bilinear (performance) and trilinear (quality) options 3Dc High Quality 4:1 Normal Map Compression Works with any two-channel data format HYPER Z HD 3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with Early Z Test Lossless Z-Buffer Compression (up to 48:1) Fast Z-Buffer Clear Z cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering Optimized for performance at high display resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions VIDEOSHADER HD

* 16:9 aspect ratio monitors are supported on 1920x1080 and 848x480 on Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows ME. The complete list of resolutions depends on the driver version and operating system. NOTE: resolutions are limited by the performance of the attached monitor.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES Windows Logo Program compliant CATALYST Software Suite
Seamless integration of pixel shaders and video in real time FULLSTREAM video de-blocking technology for Real, DivX, WMV9 and WMV10 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 Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion (temporal filtering) DISPLAY 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 YPrPb component output for HDTV display connection Single and dual link external TMDS transmitter support for high resolution and/or multi-monitor DVI configurations Compatible with ATIs THEATER video decode and capture devices for VIVO (Video Input / Video Output) configurations

2D DISPLAY MODES

Resolutions, colors and maximum refresh rates (Hz) in 256, 65K or 16.7M colors

DISPLAY MODES:

Resolutions, colors and maximum refresh rates (Hz) for 256, 65K and 16.7M colors
Monitor Resolution 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024 1600x1200 1920x1080* 16:9 1920x1200 1920x1440 2048x1536 65K colors 16.7M colors

Hz 2048x1536 2048x1536

MAXIMUM 3D RESOLUTIONS
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PIXEL PIPELINES

GEOMETRY TRANSFORM RATE

810 M vertices/sec

GIGAFLOPS

MEMORY BANDWIDTH

37.8 GB/Sec

CORE SPEED/ MEMORY SPEED

540e/590m

PIXEL FILL RATE

8.6 Gigapixels/sec
RADEON X850 XT PLATINUM EDITION 256MB 207
RADEON X850 XT 256MB M vertices/sec 200 34.6 GB/Sec 520e/540m 8.3 Gigapixels/sec
RADEON X850 PRO 256MB M vertices/sec 159 24.6 GB/Sec 520e/540m 6.2 Gigapixels/sec
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March 2009

Legacy Driver Support for AMDs Older ATI Radeon

Graphics Accelerators

As of ATI Catalyst 9.4 (based on the 8.60 driver) to be released April 2009, AMD will move a number of older ATI Radeon graphics accelerators products to a legacy driver support structure. This change will impact Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Linux distributions. AMD is moving to a legacy software support structure to better focus development resources on future products and ensure driver stability for these mature graphics products.

Catalyst Web Releases:

The following products will be moved to the legacy software support structure: Desktop Graphics Products ATI Radeon 9500 Series ATI Radeon 9550 Series ATI Radeon 9600 Series ATI Radeon 9700 Series ATI Radeon 9800 Series ATI Radeon X300 Series ATI Radeon X550 Series ATI Radeon X600 Series ATI Radeon X700 Series ATI Radeon X800 Series ATI Radeon X850 Series ATI Radeon X1050 Series ATI Radeon X1300 Series ATI Radeon X1550 Series ATI Radeon X1600 Series ATI Radeon X1650 Series ATI Radeon X1800 Series ATI Radeon X1900 Series Integrated Chipset Products ATI Radeon Xpress Series ATI Radeon X1200 Series (AMD 690V) ATI Radeon X1250 Series (AMD 690G) ATI Radeon 2100 Series (AMD 740G)
The Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Linux Legacy ATI Catalyst drivers for the products listed above will be available for download from http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html. AMD may periodically provide Windows XP and Windows Vista driver updates for critical fixes only. No new enhancements will be provided in future driver updates. The Catalyst Linux Edition driver package will remain at release 9.3; no further changes will be provided. The Microsoft Windows 7 operating system will not be supported. Any customers using a combination of an ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, or ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series product with any of the products listed above in a single PC system must use the ATI Catalyst 9.3 or earlier driver. All future ATI Catalyst releases made available past the ATI Catalyst 9.3 release will not include support for these products or any of their associated features.

OEM Releases:

The following products will be moved to the legacy software support structure: Desktop Graphics Products ATI Radeon 9500 Series ATI Radeon 9550 Series ATI Radeon 9600 Series ATI Radeon 9700 Series ATI Radeon 9800 Series ATI Radeon X300 Series ATI Radeon X550 Series ATI Radeon X600 Series ATI Radeon X700 Series ATI Radeon X800 Series ATI Radeon X850 Series ATI Radeon X1050 Series ATI Radeon X1300 Series ATI Radeon X1550 Series ATI Radeon X1600 Series ATI Radeon X1650 Series ATI Radeon X1800 Series ATI Radeon X1900 Series Mobile Graphics Products ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 ATI Mobility Radeon 9800 ATI Mobility Radeon X300 ATI Mobility Radeon X600 ATI Mobility Radeon X700 ATI Mobility Radeon X800 ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 ATI Mobility Radeon X1350 ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 ATI Mobility Radeon X1450 ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 ATI Mobility Radeon X1700 ATI Mobility Radeon X1800 ATI Mobility Radeon X1900 ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 Integrated Chipset Products ATI Radeon Xpress Series ATI Radeon X1200 Series (AMD 690V) ATI Radeon X1250 Series (AMD 690G) ATI Radeon 2100 Series (AMD 740G)

The Windows XP and Windows Vista drivers for the products listed above will be available in a maintained driver branch from the 8.593 release. The Linux graphics drivers will be frozen as of Catalyst Linux Edition 9.3 and will not be maintained in the 8.593 driver branch. AMD will provide Windows XP and Windows Vista driver updates for critical fixes only and to support program launches and refreshes. No new features will be provided in this driver branch. The Catalyst Linux Edition driver package will remain at release 9.3; no further changes will be provided. The Windows 7 operating system will not be officially supported. However, the current Windows Vista WDDM1.0 driver is expected to be fully compatible with Windows 7 and should work as is. Microsoft has recently changed their logo policy for Windows 7 to allow DX 9 products to obtain the Windows 7 logo until December 2009. If specific customer programs require a certified driver for the products listed above, AMD will consider these requests on a program-by-program basis. Please contact your product management representatives as early as possible to discuss this support. Please note that due resource limitations and delays in obtaining the official Windows Logo Kit, Windows 7 certified drivers for the products listed above may not be available until after the launch of the new Windows 7 operating system. Any customers using a combination of an ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, or ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series product with any of the products listed above in a single PC system must use the 8.593 driver branch. All future driver releases starting from 8.60 will not include support for these products or any of their associated features.
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