ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 Series – Overview
Experience the Power of
HD
Experience the power of HD with the ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series
of GPUs - graphics processing designed for ultimate HD gaming.
 Ultimate HD Gaming
Advance to ultimate HD gaming with incredible performance, life-like
graphics and support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1. With ATI Radeon™ HD
3800 Series GPUs powering your gaming experience, you’re ready to
dominate the battlefield. And thanks to plug-and-play ATI CrossFireX™ upgradeability,
you can scale your performance to even greater heights.
Prepare to DOMINATE!
 ATI Radeon™ HD
3800 DirectX® 10.1 Ping Pong Demo
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the ATI Radeon™ and Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1
whitepaper
HD Video Beyond 1080p
The latest Blu-ray and HD DVD movies play smoothly
at full 1080p and your CPU is unbound for other tasks thanks to the Unified
Video Decoder and ATI Avivo™ HD video and display technology. Enjoy
quality to spare with resolutions upscaled beyond 1080p for the most
processing-intensive content. And with a choice of digital outputs, you
have more options when enjoying your digital entertainment.2
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the ATI Avivo™ HD - Video Technology Brief
Learn
more about ATI Avivo™ HD
Break-through Efficiency
ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 Series graphics processors have
break-through efficiency, with up to twice the processing performance
per watt than previous generations of AMD GPUs. And thanks to the smaller,
55nm process technology that runs cool and quiet, you can pack more performance
in your system at an extraordinary value.
- ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series – Key Features
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- Ultimate Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1
Performance – You’ll
be blown away by life-like graphics from the latest DirectX® 10.1
games, with stunning 3D graphics and shading effects.
- Over 1 teraFLOPS of Compute Power – up
to 640 stream processors (320 x 2) on a single card deliver the raw
horsepower
to attack the most demanding graphics applications
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ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU – Upgrade
to even greater 3D performance quickly and easily thanks to plug-and-play
ATI CrossFireX
technology with up to quad-GPU support.
- PCI Express® 2.0 – Get ready for the
most demanding graphics applications with PCI Express 2.0 support,
which allows up to twice the throughput of current AMD PCI Express
cards.1
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Unified Video Decoder – View and manipulate
the latest Blu-ray and HD DVD content with a dedicated hardware
video decoder that leaves
your CPU free to perform other tasks.
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Ultimate Image Quality – Performance
that rivals high-end HD-DVD and Blu-ray players on displays
with resolutions that exceed 1080p – up
to 2560x1600.2
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Integrated Digital Outputs – Enjoy
your digital content the way you want to, with built-in HDMI
that includes 5.1 surround audio
for big screen entertainment.
- More Processing Performance per Watt – Get
up to twice the Gigaflops per watt of previous generations of high-end
AMD GPUs.
- ATI
PowerPlay™ Technology – power
saving features that reduce power consumption at idle or during low-usage
- Runs Cool and Quiet – With a smaller chip
designed to use less power, your system can take advantage of high-end
Windows
Vista® features while running more efficiently and quieter
than ever.
1 ATI Radeon HD 3870 GPUs support PCIe 2.0. Some third party board configurations may not fully comply with complete PCIe 2.0 specification and operate at PCIe 1.1 specifications on motherboards that support PCIe 2.0 . Please consult with board manufacturer if this is an important feature for you.
2 1080p capable HD display required
ATI Radeon™ HD graphics chips have numerous features integrated into the processor itself
(e.g., HDCP, HDMI, etc.). Third parties manufacturing products based on,
or incorporating ATI Radeon HD graphics chips, may choose to enable some
or all of these features. If a particular feature is important to you, please
inquire of the manufacturer if a particular product supports this feature.
In addition, some features or technologies may require you to purchase additional
components in order to make full use of them (e.g. a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD drive,
HDCP-ready monitor, etc.).
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