Sapphire Claims Their X1600Pro Is The First HDMI Video Card
It looks like Sapphire will be the first ATI partner to ship such a video card that fully supports HDMI. It plans to show off the Sapphire Radeon X1600Pro HDMI card at the Cebit show in Hangover this week, and says it will be ready to ship those cards in April!
Sapphire’s X1600 features Shader model 3.0, Avivo, PCIe and some other interesting marchitecture. The new HDMI version of the card is a low-profile PCI card supporting HDCP (High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection). There will be two different cards, the one with the internal cable is connected so that the audio signal is delivered over the HDMI cable, or external via SPDIF. The card has 12 pixel pipelines, 128MB of 128-bit GDDR 3 memory and is clocked at 500MHz core and 800MHz memory. This card is not so much about gaming, although it will cope with most, but you will ceryainly be able to enjoy top quality video through a single cable.
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