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ATI Radeon 9550 256MB Connect 3D AGP Graphics Card - EOL
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ATI Radeon 9550 256MB Connect 3D AGP Graphics Card - EOL

Customer rating on ATI Radeon 9550 256MB Connect 3D AGP Graphics Card - EOL: 4 out of 5 stars ( 2 customer ratings )

Specifications

 

  • 4 paralell pixel pipelines
  • 2 programmable vertex shader pipelines
  • SmartShader(TM) 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(TM) 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(TM) 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(TM): Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
  • Full noise Stream(TM) video de-blocking technology for Real, DivX, and WMV9 formats
  • VideoSoap(TM) removal filtering for captured video
  • MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration
  • DXVA Support
  • Hardware Motion Compensation, iDCT, DCT and colour space conversion
  • All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
  • YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays
  • Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion (temporal filtering)
  • Additional Features
  • Dual integrated display controllers
  • Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400 MHz DACs
  • Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI 1.0 compliant / HDMI interoperable and HDCP ready)
  • Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution
  • Windows® Logo Program compliant
  • ATI Catalyst® Software Suite

Customer Reviews

 

Customer rating on ATI Radeon 9550 256MB Connect 3D AGP Graphics Card - EOL: 4 out of 5 stars

Average rating (2 reviews)

Customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars Great beginner card

DerbyTom | 30/05/2007 | See all DerbyTom's reviews (19) »

For price to power ratio this is as good as it gets, I got this card to play games such as Battlefield 2 and halo (at full resolution) and it really did wonders.
However i later found that you cant really teach an old dog new tricks, my PC is plain outdated and a lack of RAM meant i didnt get the full potential of this card.
If you have a newer PC and are a keen gamer i wud reccommend inversting in a better card with big titles such as Unreal tournament 3 needing a lot more clought. If you however just want to squeeze a year or 2 more out of your PC, this is what you!
hope this was helpful-ish!

Customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars Great card for the price

Sidask8r | 19/05/2007 | See all Sidask8r's reviews (7) »

What can i say, hmm.
Installed the card with no troubles after an overdue upgrade from a GeForce Mx 440. I built the system it is currently sitting in to be a very quite machine, and this card really helps only having the good-sized heat sink sitting ontop it. This card can handle games such as CS:S and BF2, however they will become very CPU intensive and you won't be able to have anything like AA or AF without sacrificing alot of FPS. For the money, the card is amazing and if your on a very tight budget this IS the card for you however if you want to play all the latest titles you'll surly need something with a bit more beef.