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MSI RX3870 - Radeon HD3870 (512Mb DDR4)

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Posted on Dec 31, 2007, 9:08 AM UTC by Winston Chim
MSI RX3870 - Radeon HD3870 (512Mb DDR4)
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Specifications

 

Specifications

 

MSI RX3870

 


 MSI RX3870-T2D512E-OC

 

RADEON™ HD 3870 Chipset Features and Specifications

  • 666 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
  • PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
  • 256-bit GDDR3/GDDR4 memory interface
  • Bus Memory Controller

-Fully distributed design with 512-bit internal ring bus for memory reads and writes

  • Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support
    - 2x/4x/8x modes.
    - Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns, and centroid sampling.
    - Temporal anti-aliasing.
    - Adaptive anti-aliasing mode.
    - Shader Model 4.1
    - 32-bit floating point texture filtering
    - Indexed cube map arrays
    - Independent blend modes per render target
    - Pixel coverage sample masking
    - Read/write multi-sample surfaces with shaders
    - Gather4 texture fetching
  • Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
    - High performance vertex cache
    - Programmable tessellation unit
    - Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification
    - Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance

OpenGL 2.0 support

  • Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
    - 320 stream processing units
    * Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders
    * Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders
    * Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors
    - 128-bit floating point precision for all operations
    - Command processor for reduced CPU overhead
    - Shader instruction and constant caches
    - Up to 80 texture fetches per clock cycle
    - Up to 128 textures per pixel
    - Fully associative multi-level texture cache design
    - DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression
    - High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
    - Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs
    - Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer
    - Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear
    - Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1)
    - Lossless color compression (up to 8:1)
    - 8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support
    - Physics processing support

Anti-aliasing features
- Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4, or 8 samples per pixel)
- Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality
- Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
- Temporal anti-aliasing
- Gamma correct
- Super AA (ATI CrossFire™ configurations only)
- All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering

  • Texture filtering features
    - 2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel)
    - 128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering
    - Bicubic filtering
    - sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)
    - Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF)
    - Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support
    - Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support

HDCP - High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection
HDCP is a content protection specification to protect digital entertainment content across the DVI/HDMI interface. The HDCP provides a robust, cost-effective and transparent method for transmitting and receiving digital entertainment similar to DVI/HDMI-compliant digital displays. HDCP encrypts the data transmitted between the DVI/HDMI connector on the graphics adapter and the display. To provide this support, both the graphics adapter and the display need to have an HDCP transmitter and receiver respectively.

  • CrossFire Multi-GPU Technology
    - Scale up rendering performance and image quality with 2 or more GPUs
    - Integrated compositing engine
    - High performance dual channel interconnect 

 

PERFORMANCES
• Memory interface: 256-bit
• Engine Clock Speed: 800MHz
• Memory Clock Speed: 2250MHz
• Stream Processing Units: 320
• Texture Units: 16

 

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For more information please visit MSI's Website

 

 


ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 Series – Overview

 

Experience the power of HD
Experience the power of HD with the ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series of GPUs - graphics processing designed for how you work and play.

Advance to the Next Generation of HD Gaming
Advance to the next generation of gaming with incredible performance, life-like graphics and support for the latest Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1. With PCI Express® 2.0 support, you’re ready for games that will demand faster throughput. And thanks to plug-and-play ATI CrossFireX™ upgradeability, it is easy to turbo-charge your 3D performance.

 

Screenshot from Tabula Rasa - ©2007 NCsoft Corporation
Screenshot from Tabula Rasa - ©2007 NCsoft Corporation

HD Video Beyond 1080p
The latest Blu-ray and HD DVD movies play smoothly at full 1080p and your CPU is unbound for other tasks thanks to the Unified Video Decoder and ATI Avivo™ HD video and display technology. Enjoy quality to spare with resolutions upscaled beyond 1080p for the most processing-intensive content. And with a choice of digital outputs, you have more options when enjoying your digital entertainment.

Break-through Efficiency
ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 Series graphics processors have break-through efficiency, with up to twice the processing performance per watt than previous generations of AMD GPUs. And thanks to a smaller format that runs cooler, you can pack more performance in your system at an extraordinary value.

 

 

ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series – Key Features

PCI Express® 2.0 – Get ready for the most demanding graphics applications with PCI Express 2.0 support, which allows up to twice the throughput of current AMD PCI Express cards.

  • Incredible Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 performance – You’ll be blown away by life-like graphics from the latest DirectX® 10.1 games, with stunning 3D graphics and shading effects.

320 Stream Processors – More than enough horsepower to support the most demanding graphics applications.

  • ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU – Upgrade to even greater 3D performance quickly and easily thanks to plug-and-play ATI CrossFireX technology with up to quad-GPU support.

Unified Video Decoder – View and manipulate the latest Blu-ray and HD DVD content with a dedicated hardware video decoder that leaves your CPU free to perform other tasks.

Ultimate Image Quality – Performance that rivals high-end HD-DVD and Blu-ray players on displays with resolutions that exceed 1080p – up to 2560x1600.

Integrated Digital Outputs – Enjoy your digital content the way you want to, with built-in HDMI that includes 5.1 surround audio for big screen entertainment.

  • More Processing Performance per Watt – Get up to twice the Gigaflops per watt of previous generations of high-end AMD GPUs.
  • – power saving features that reduce power consumption at idle or during low-usage

Runs Cool and Quiet – With a smaller chip designed to use less power, your system can take advantage of high-end Windows Vista® features while running more efficiently and quieter than ever.

 

For more information please visit ATI's Website

 

 

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