ATI Technologies RADEON X1550 SERIES - Manual (Page 9)

Radeon® X1550 Series Features 1
CHAPTER 1:
Introduction
Congratulations on the purchase of your ATI Radeon® X1550 Series
graphics card. We hope that you will enjoy countless hours of trouble-free
computing.
Radeon® X1550 Series Features
Graphic Features
• Native PCI Express® X16 bus support.
• Four parallel rendering pipelines.
• 32/MB/64MB/128MB/256MB/512MB GDDR3 on-board
memory.
• Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® Shader Model 3.x.
• High performance Ultra-Threaded shader engine.
• Two vertex shader processors.
• Four pixel shader processors.
• 128-bit 4-channel memory interface supporting DDR/DDR2/
GDDR3 memory devices.
• Native PCI Express® x16 bus interface.
SmoothVision™
• Full-scene anti-aliasing method that smooths uneven edges and
improves blurred images.
• 2x/4x/6x Anti-aliasing modes with a loss-less compression up to a
ratio of 6:1 at all resolutions.
• 2x/4x//8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes with up to 128-tap
texture filtering.
HyperZ™
• Ensures optimal hardware performance by discarding irrelevant
object data that is not visible to the user.
• Conserves video memory bandwidth.