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 HD3450 is Microsoft VISTA™ 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.

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Features

• 181 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process

• PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface

• 64-bit DDR2 memory interface

• Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support

• Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture

• Dynamic Geometry Acceleration

• OpenGL 2.0 support

• ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform

• ATI PowerPlay™

• ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology

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Specification

Chipset Features: 128-bit floating point High Dynamic-Range (HDR)

128-bit Studio-Precision Computation

AMD Xilleon HDTV Encoder

ATi 3Dc+

ATI Avivo

ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology

HDMI Output Support

Microsoft DirectX® 10.1

OpenGL 2.0

Shader Model 4.1

GPU Speed: 600 MHz

Memory: 256MB

Memory Bit Rate: 64 Bit

Memory Type: GDDR2

Memory Speed: 1000 MHz

Pipelines/Stream Process: 40

Cooling: Passive

Interface: PCI-E 2.0 (x16)

Connectivity: D-Sub

DVI-I

HDTV

HDCP Ready: Yes

CrossFire Master: Yes

CrossFire Slave: Yes