Play the VISTA™ way!

Ignite your imagination with the technology that makes distant worlds erupt with vibrant textures rendered in High-Definition clarity a reality. The SAPPHIRE HD3650 is Microsoft VISTA™ compatible with the awesome power of 120 stream processing units, accelerates next generation DirectX 10.1 games while remaining best in its price vs performance class. Support for the latest Shader Model 4.1 boost the level of realism provided by the HD3650 AGP to new heights and the available onboard memory of 512MB ensures a smooth frame rate in all of today’s hot titles and applications. Enhance the way you play, not the amount you pay.

120 stream processing units
AGP 4x/8x bus interface
128-bit GDDR3 memory interface
High-speed 128-bit HDR (High Dynamic Range) rendering
DirectX® 10.1 / Shader Model 4.1 support
55nm process technology
Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing
ATI PowerPlay™ energy conserving technology
Unified Video Decoder (UVD) for Blu-ray™ and HD DVD at full HD 1080p

    *  378 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
    * 128-bit GDDR3 memory interface
    * Ring Bus Memory Controller
          o Fully distributed design with 256-bit internal ring bus for memory reads and writes
    * MicrosoftDirectX10.1 support
          o Shader Model 4.1
          o 32-bit floating point texture filtering
          o Indexed cube map arrays
          o Independent blend modes per render target
          o Pixel coverage sample masking
          o Read/write multi-sample surfaces with shaders
          o Gather4 texture fetching
    * Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
          o 120 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
          o 128-bit floating point precision for all operations
          o Command processor for reduced CPU overhead
          o Shader instruction and constant caches
          o Up to 40 texture fetches per clock cycle
          o Up to 128 textures per pixel
          o Fully associative multi-level texture cache design
          o DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression
          o High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
          o Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs
          o Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer
          o Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear
          o Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1)
          o Lossless color compression (up to 8:1)
          o 8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support
          o Physics processing support
    * Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
          o High performance vertex cache
          o Programmable tessellation unit
          o Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification
          o Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance
    * Anti-aliasing features
          o Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4, or 8 samples per pixel)
          o Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality
          o Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
          o Temporal anti-aliasing
          o Gamma correct
          o All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering
    * Texture filtering features
          o 2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel)
          o 128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering
          o Bicubic filtering
          o sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)
          o Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF)
          o Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support
          o Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support
    * OpenGL 2.0 support
    * ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform
          o Dedicated unified video decoder (UVD) for H.264/AVC and VC-1 video formats
                + High definition (HD) playback of both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats
          o Hardware MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and DivX video decode acceleration
                + Motion compensation and IDCT
          o ATI Avivo Video Post Processor

·         Color space conversion

·         Chroma subsampling format conversion

·         Horizontal and vertical scaling

·         Gamma correction

·         Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing

·         De-blocking and noise reduction filtering

·         Detail enhancement

·         Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)

·         Bad edit correction

                        Two independent display controllers

·         Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video overlays for each display

·         Full 30-bit display processing

·         Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion

·         Spatial/temporal dithering provides 30-bit color quality on 24-bit and 18-bit displays

·         High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all display outputs

·         Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays

·         Fast, glitch-free mode switching

·         Hardware cursor

                        Integrated dual-link DVI display outputs

·         Supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI)

·         Includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content

·         Supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x1536

                        Integrated AMD Xilleon™ HDTV encoder

·         Provides high quality analog TV output (component/S-video/composite)

·         Supports SDTV and HDTV resolutions

·         Underscan and overscan compensation

                        MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264/AVC encoding and transcoding

                        Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time

                        VGA mode support on all display outputs

                        ATI PowerPlay™

                        Advanced power management technology for optimal performance and power savings

                        Performance on Demand

·         Constantly monitors GPU activity, dynamically adjusting clocks and voltage based on user scenario

·         Clock and memory speed throttling

·         Voltage switching

·         Dynamic clock gating

                        Central thermal management – on-chip sensor monitors GPU temperature and triggers thermal actions as required

System Requirement:

    * AGP based PC is required with one 4X/8X AGP slot available on the motherboard.
    * 1GB or greater system memory for better performance.
    * 550Watt or greater power supply with 30Amps on 12 volt with 2x4 power connector recommanded.
    * Certified power supplies are recommended.  Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products
    * Installation software requires CD-ROM drive.
    * DVD playback requires DVD driver
    * Blu-ray/HD DVD playback requires Blu-ray/HD-DVD drive and playback software.