Sapphire Radeon 9550 - 256MB DDR

Sapphire Radeon 9550

Although this card is in working order, it would require a new fan. This is user replaceable and can be purchased at any good computer store.

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Redefining Mainstream Graphics The SAPPHIRE RADEON™ 9550 delivers unprecedented realism and visual quality to the enthusiast with true support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9 technology. Fitted with 256MB of onboard memory and utilizing next generation VPU technology the SAPPHIRE RADEON™ 9550 offers more then just blistering frame-rates and fluid graphics with realistic and dynamic lighting, the RADEON™ 9550 is also capable of superior DVD/HDTV decoding while keeping the CPU free to work in the background on other tasks! The RADEON™ 9550 increases expectations of what a mainstream product should be! Industry acclaimed next generation VPU, RADEON™ 9550 True Microsoft® DX9 Performance for today's games Full support for the latest OpenGL® functionality

ATI RADEON™ 9550

Features

• 4 parallel pixel pipelines
• 2 programmable vertex shader pipelines
• 128-bit dual-channel DDR memory interface
• AGP8x/4x

SmartShader™ 2.0

• Support for 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
• DirectX® 9.0 Pixel Shaders
  • Up to 1,536 instructions and 16 textures per rendering pass
  • 32 temporary and constant registers
  • 128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point color formats
  • Multiple Render Target (MRT) support
• Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® via extensions

SmoothVision™ 2.1

• 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes
  • Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns, and centroid sampling
  • Lossless Color Compression (up to6:1)at all resolutions
  • Temporal Anti-Aliasing
• 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes
  • Up to 128-tap texture filtering
  • Adaptive algorithm with bilinear (performance) and trilinear (quality) options

HYPER Z™ III

• 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

VideoShader™

• Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
• FullStream™ video de-blocking technology for Real, DivX, and WMV9 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
• YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displaysâ€
• Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion (temporal filtering)