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SAPPHIRE X1950GT

SAPPHIRE X1950GT Hits New Price Performance Point

A new introduction by SAPPHIRE Technology, industry leading manufacturer of graphics cards, now reduces the cost of entry to its highly successful X1950 Series. The SAPPHIRE X1950GT is scheduled to ship from retailers and system integrators worldwide from January 29th 2007.

The SAPPHIRE X1950GT combines high-definition entertainment with fast gaming performance, industry-leading image quality and crystal clear High Definition digital video at a new and very affordable price point. Like other members of the X1950 series, the SAPPHIRE X1950GT boasts a set of image quality features like simultaneous HDR with adaptive anti-aliasing and a palette of over one billion colours, bringing to life the latest gaming and video experiences.

SAPPHIRE’s X1950GT also features the easy-to-use “plug-and-play” CrossFire™ dual graphics processor configuration introduced with the X1950PRO. By adding a second SAPPHIRE X1950GT graphics card on a suitable CrossFire™ mainboard platform, users can achieve a significant boost to gaming performance. Easily fitted Internal CrossFire™ bridge cables (supplied) deliver full 24-bit high speed data exchange for maximum performance. The software driver automatically recognises the dual GPU configuration making installation simple.

SAPPHIRE X1950GT natively supports HDCP and features the highly acclaimed ATI Avivo™ technology delivering vibrant high fidelity images and video playback to the latest High Definition (HD) video standards. Two Dual-link DVI outputs are provided, as well as TV out. Multimonitor operation is supported with HydravisionTM

All SAPPHIRE's current graphics cards are Microsoft Windows Vista™ ready and supported by the ATI Catalyst® suite of software, ensuring customers have easy and ongoing access to software updates for performance, stability and added features.

RoHS SAPPHIRE manufactures to the latest lead-free standards and products are fully RoHS compliant. Specification Summary

Chipset ATI RADEON X1950GT Engine clock 500MHz Shader units 36 Pixel Pipelines 12 Memory clock 1200 MHz GDDR3 Memory interface 256-bit

Memory Support 256 MB Cooling Active single slot cooling Bus Interface PCI-Express x16 Variable display outputs DVI-I / DVI-I / TV out Max 3D resolution 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI) 1024 x 768 (TV out) Hardware Features DirectX® 9 ShaderModel 3.0 Software Feature AvivoTM

About SAPPHIRE Technology Ltd SAPPHIRE Technology Ltd designs, manufactures and distributes the most complete range of ATI RadeonTM based video graphics accelerators worldwide. Additionally SAPPHIRE produces mainboards based on AMD chipset technology. SAPPHIRE is based in Hong Kong with two ISO9001 and ISO14001 manufacturing facilities in Dongguan, China. The factories have a total capacity of 1.8 million graphics boards per month. SAPPHIRE currently employs over 3000 employees worldwide with local representation in North America, Europe, South Africa and Asia Pacific.

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