ATI RADEON 9550

Experience gaming and home theatre at new levels of immersive cinematic quality graphics with the unprecedented combination of power and performance featured in RADEON® 9550 graphic cards. Maximize your long-term entertainment value with its Quad-pipe architecture and advanced visual quality that will upgrade your expectations – and push the most compelling next-generation games to their limit.

Performance
Immerse yourself in real-time, cinematic action with the RADEON® 9550, and the power of 256MB of DDR memory.

• HYPER Z™ III+ technology removes memory bandwidth performance bottleneck and unlocks the full power of the RADEON® 9550
• AGP 8X, doubling available bandwidth along with quad-pipe architecture deliver faster gameplay
• 128-bit full floating point precision enables billions of color variations to render the same lighting and effects as Hollywood studios

Visual Quality
Developed with ATI’s industry partners, RADEON® 9550 graphic cards deliver incredible Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 gaming experience.

• SMARTSHADER™ 2.0 technology supports Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 feature sets, enabling complex and cinematic-quality lighting effects
• SMOOTHVISION™ 2.1 technology delivers the sharpest, clearest textures without sacrificing frame rates
• FULLSTREAM™ removes blocky artifacts from streaming Internet video to deliver smoother looking, higher quality online content

Features

Advanced stability and revolutionary, longlasting features are hallmarks of the RADEON® 9550, featuring the advanced visual power of ATI’s cinematic Visual Processing Unit (VPU).

• Optimized to run the most demanding 2D and 3D next-generation games and applications without putting extra strain on the CPU HYDRAVISION™ provides the efficient solution for controlling monitor real estate with dual monitor support
• RADEON® 9550 features TV and Digital Flat Panel support

Specifications

System Requirements

• Intel® Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron™, AMD-K6®/Duron™/Athlon™/Athlon™ XP or compatible with
• AGP 4X (1.5V), 8X (0.8v) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (4X/8X).
• 128MB of system memory
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
• DVD playback requires DVD drive

Graphics Technology

• RADEON® 9550 Visual Processing Unit (VPU)

Memory Configuration

• 256MB of double data rate memory

Operating System Support

• Windows® XP
• Windows® 2000

Display Support

• VGA connector for analog CRT
• S-video connector for TV / VCR¹
• DVI-I connector for digital flat panel²
• Independent resolutions and refresh rates for any two connected displays