Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 3850 512MB GDDR3 PCI-E Dual DVI Graphics Card

666 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process

PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface

256-bit GDDR3 memory interface

Ring Bus Memory Controller

Fully distributed design with 512-bit internal ring bus for memory reads and writes

Microsoft DirectX 10.1 support

Shader Model 4.1

32-bit floating point texture filtering

Indexed cube map arrays

Independent blend modes per render target

Pixel coverage sample masking

Read/write multi-sample surfaces with shaders

Gather4 texture fetching

Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture

320 stream processing units

128-bit floating point precision for all operations

Command processor for reduced CPU overhead

Shader instruction and constant caches

Up to 80 texture fetches per clock cycle

Up to 128 textures per pixel

Fully associative multi-level texture cache design

DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression

High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)

Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs

Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer

Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear

Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1)

Lossless color compression (up to 8:1)

8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support

Physics processing support

Dynamic Geometry Acceleration

High performance vertex cache

Programmable tessellation unit

Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification

Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance

Anti-aliasing features

Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4, or 8 samples per pixel)

Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality

Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling

Temporal anti-aliasing

Gamma correct

Super AA (ATI CrossFire configurations only)

All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering

Texture filtering features

2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel)

128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering

Bicubic filtering

sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)

Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF)

Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support

Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support

OpenGL 2.0 support