Gigabyte Technology, together with South African distributor Rectron, has introduced South African users to the anticipated GV-RX85X256V graphic accelerators, featuring the latest ATI RADEON 850XT Platinum VPU.
Powered by the ATI-RADEON 850 core chipset at a clock speed of 540MHz up to 1 180MHz and 256MB GDDRIII memory, the GV-RX85 series card uses high level 0.13 micrometer processing with 16 pixel pipelines and 6 vertex engines, and includes a 16x PCI-Express interface.
The GV-RX85 series delivers a 3D benchmark value of 15 000 and supports DirectX 9.0C providing gamers with the high quality pictures, sharp and accurate colours. Additional ATI VPU features include SMARTSHADER HD, SMOOTHVISION HD and the revolutionary 3Dc engine.
"In terms of raw processing power, the RX85 Series simply dominates the competition," says Michael Hann, product manager at Rectron.
The RX85 series supports HDTV at 2 048 x 1 536dpi for home theatre applications, along with VIDEOSHADER technology from ATI providing seamless integration for pixel shaders setting new standards in real-time video quality.
Gigabyte offers the GV-RX85 to gamers with Power DVD 5.0 in a software bundle that includes Thief, Joint Operations and SpellForce.
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