Sapphire confirms HDMI enabled card for April of 2006
Sapphire today announced that it has confirmed supplies of its much anticipated HDMI compliant graphics card. Its Radeon X1600 Pro card is fully equipped with the necessary components to support full HDMI-HDCP output. Sapphire had been speaking about the card for several weeks but questions on availability were still up in the air. Today Sapphire confirms that products will be available in April.
The architecture also supports Avivo(TM) delivering vibrant high fidelity images and video playback to the latest High Definition (HD) video standards. The new HDMI version is a low profile PCI Express card which supports HDCP and delivers exciting new levels of display performance and quality over this new industry standard connection interface.
Quick specifications:
Note that the card is also able to pass audio signal through the HDMI interface or through a SPDIF connection.
Sapphire today announced that it has confirmed supplies of its much anticipated HDMI compliant graphics card. Its Radeon X1600 Pro card is fully equipped with the necessary components to support full HDMI-HDCP output. Sapphire had been speaking about the card for several weeks but questions on availability were still up in the air. Today Sapphire confirms that products will be available in April.
The architecture also supports Avivo(TM) delivering vibrant high fidelity images and video playback to the latest High Definition (HD) video standards. The new HDMI version is a low profile PCI Express card which supports HDCP and delivers exciting new levels of display performance and quality over this new industry standard connection interface.
Quick specifications:
- Engine clock: 500MHz
- Shader units: 12
- Memory clock: 800MHz DDR3
- Memory interface: 128-bit
- Memory amount: 128MB
- Interface: PCIe
- Outputs: HDMI-HDCP (1920x1080P), VGA, SPDIF
Note that the card is also able to pass audio signal through the HDMI interface or through a SPDIF connection.