Diamond Multimedia Stealth X550 - Manual

X550
19748 Dearborn Street
Chatsworth, CA 91311
Tel: (818) 534-1414
Fax: (818) 773-9619
www.diamondmm.com
Featuring: RADEON TM X550
Memory: 256MB DDR
Slot Type: PCI Express
With: SVGA & DVI/TV-Out
Stealth X550
Cinematic 2D/3D Graphics Card
Get the most from your gaming, digital
photography, video editing and web
surfing experiences with the Stealth
®
X550, an affordable graphics upgrade
featuring
ATI’s industry-leading
performance, technology and support.
The Stealth X550 fully supports the PCI
Express
®
bus, the newest PC industry
standard for delivering maximum real-
time performance for your graphics-
intensive software applications.
Overview
Diamond, Diamond Multimedia and Stealth are registered trademarks of Diamond Multimedia. ATI, Graphics by ATI, and Radeon are trademarks
of ATI Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. © 2005 Diamond Multimedia. All rights reserved.
®
LATEST TECHNOLOGIES
NATIVE PCI EXPRESS
Takes advantage of the latest 0.11 micron process to bring the fastest performing programmable
shaders into the mainstream.
Enables unprecedented flexibility for new applications and enhanced performance. Full 16 lane
support with 8GB/sec bidirectional peak bandwidth support (vs. bridged AGP bottleneck).
SMARTSHADER & VIDEOSHADER
Provides superior programmability and performance by implementing Microsoft DirectX 9.0-level
shaders at full precision at all times. Includes: Four advanced programmable shaders; full precision,
full speed all the time; MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX, Windows Media 9, and Real Media hardware
acceleration; adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing, dynamically selected for every pixel.
DUAL MONITOR SUPPORT
Drive two monitors simultaneously – great for IT staff, engineers, designers and anyone who
frequently moves back and forth between productivity applications. At home, use the Stealth X550
to play a DVD on your TV while you work seperately on your VGA or DVI monitor.
2 FAST GEOMETRY ENGINES
With each engine capable of delivering two times the output over those available in competing
technologies
4 FULL PRECISION PIPELINES
Over double what other graphics technologies can offer to provide over 2 GigaPixels/sec of unmatched
shader power
SPECIFICATIONS:
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
• GPU: Radeon X550
• Bus Type: PCI-Express x16
• Memory: 256MB DDR – 128bit
• Core Clock: 400 MHz
• RAMDACS: Dual 400 MHz
• API Support: DirectX ® 9.0, OpenGL 2.0
• Output: DVI, VGA, TV-Out
• Supports for Hardware and Transform
and Lighting (T&L)
• Intel ® Pentium ® 4 or AMD ® Athlon ® 64 FX CPU's
• CPU running at 2.4 GHz or higher
• 420 Watt power supply or higher
• Super VGA or DVI-I compatible monitor
• Microsoft Windows ® XP, 2000, MCE
• PCI Express X16 compliant slot
• CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
• 64MB system RAM
• 150MB available hard disk space
Final Fantasy XI
Benchmark 3 v1.00
AquaMark3 v1.0
(default=4xAF)
Tomb Raider v49 PS2.0
Half-Life 2 Prison Time
demo 1024x768
Far Cry v1.3
Training Level
3DMark05 build 110
(defaults & DST enabled)
Stealth ® X550 128MB, 128bit GeForce TM 6200 256MB GeForce TM 6200 TurboCache TM 256MB
0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 1.00 1.20 1.40 1.60
*Radeon X550 128MB 128-bit compared with GeForce TM 6200 with 256MB TurboCache TM and GeForce 6200 TM 256MB. Test system:
Intel Pentium 4, 3.4GHz, 512 MB RAM. Graphics settings: 1024x768. Drivers: ATI 8.121rc1, NVIDIA 71.84.
Copyright 2005, ATI Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. ATI, RADEON, CATALYST, HyperMemory, SMARTSHADER, FULLSTREAM and
VIDEOSHADER are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of ATI Technologies Inc. All other company and/or product names are
trademarks of their respective owners. Features, performance and specifications may vary by operating environment and are subject
to change without notice.