SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 3450 Graphics card

SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 3450 - Play the Vista TM way!Ignite your imagination with the technology that makes distant worlds erupt with vibrant textures rendered in High-Definition clarity a re (...) See more See less

ality. The SAPPHIRE HD3450 is Microsoft VISTA TM compatible with awesome power of 40 stream processing units, accelerates next generation DirectX® 10 games while remaining best in its price vs. performance class. Support for the latest Shader Model 4 boost the level of realism provided by the HD3450 to new heights and the available on board memory of 256MB or 512MB of DDR/GDDR ensures a smooth frame rate in all of today's hot titles and applications. Enhance the way you play not the amount you pay. 181 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface 64-bit DDR2/GDDR3 memory interface Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 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 40 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 16 texture fetches per clock cycle o Up to 128 textures per pixel o Fully associative vertex/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 Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear o Lossless Z & stencil compression o 8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support o Physics processing support Dynamic Geometry Acceleration o Programmable tessellation unit o Accelerated geometry shader path fo (Description excerpted from: Svp)