Play the Vistaway!

Play the Vistaway! Ignite your imagination with the technology that makes distant worlds erupt with vibrant textures rendered in High-Definition clarity a reality. The SAPPHIRE HD3650 is Microsoft VISTA compatible with awesome power of 120 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 HD3650 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.

	PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus support
	DirectX 10.1 / Shader Model 4.1 support
	ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU support
	Unified Video Decoder (UVD) for Blu-ray and HD DVD at full HD 1080p
	HDMI with 5.1 surround sound audio (Important Information for Windows XP & Windows Vista users)

• 378 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
• PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
• 128-bit DDR2/GDDR3/GDDR4 memory interface
• Ring Bus Memory Controller
  • Fully distributed design with 256-bit internal ring bus for memory reads and writes
• MicrosoftDirectX10.1 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
  • 120 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
  • 128-bit floating point precision for all operations
  • Command processor for reduced CPU overhead
  • Shader instruction and constant caches
  • Up to 40 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 CrossFireX 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
• ATI Avivo HD Video and Display Platform
  • Dedicated unified video decoder (UVD) for H.264/AVC and VC-1 video formats
    • High definition (HD) playback of both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats
  • Hardware MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and DivX video decode acceleration
    • Motion compensation and IDCT
  • ATI Avivo Video Post Processor
    • Color space conversion
    • Chroma subsampling format conversion
    • Horizontal and vertical scaling
    • Gamma correction
    • Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing
    • De-blocking and noise reduction filtering
    • Detail enhancement
    • Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
    • Bad edit correction
  • Two independent display controllers
    • Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video overlays for each display
    • Full 30-bit display processing
    • Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion
    • Spatial/temporal dithering provides 30-bit color quality on 24-bit and 18-bit displays
    • High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all display outputs
    • Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays
    • Fast, glitch-free mode switching
    • Hardware cursor
  • Two integrated dual-link DVI display outputs
    • Each supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI)²
    • Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content³
  • Two integrated DisplayPort outputs
    • Supports 24- and 30-bit displays at all resolutions up to 2560x1600¹
    • 1, 2, or 4 lanes per output, with data rate up to 2.7 Gbps per lane
  • Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs
    • Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x1536²
  • HDMI output support
    • Supports all display resolutions up to 1920x1080²
    • Integrated HD audio controller with up to 2 channel 48 kHz stereo or multi-channel (5.1) AC3 enabling a plug-and-play cable-less audio solution
  • Integrated AMD Xilleon HDTV encoder
    • Provides high quality analog TV output (component/S-video/composite)
    • Supports SDTV and HDTV resolutions
    • Underscan and overscan compensation
  • MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264/AVC encoding and transcoding
  • Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
  • VGA mode support on all display outputs
• ATI PowerPlay
  • Advanced power management technology for optimal performance and power savings
  • Performance on Demand
    • Constantly monitors GPU activity, dynamically adjusting clocks and voltage based on user scenario
    • Clock and memory speed throttling
    • Voltage switching
    • Dynamic clock gating
  • Central thermal management on-chip sensor monitors GPU temperature and triggers thermal actions as required
• ATI CrossFireX Multi-GPU Technology
  • Scale up rendering performance and image quality with two GPUs
  • Integrated compositing engine
  • High performance bridge interconnect¹

1. Bridge interconnect is not required for ATI CrossFireX, and may not be included in all product configurations
2. Some custom resolutions require user configuration
3. Playing HDCP content requires additional HDCP ready components including but not limited to an HDCP ready monitor, Blu-ray or HD DVD disc drive, multimedia application and
   computer operating system

System Requirements

• PCI Express based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
• 300 Watt or greater power supply recommended (450 Watt for dual ATI CrossFireX)
• Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to https://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products
• 1GB of system memory
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
• DVD playback requires DVD drive
• Blu-ray / HD DVD playback requires Blu-ray / HD DVD drive and playback software
• For a complete ATI CrossFireX system, a second ATI Radeon HD 3600 Series graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFire Bridge Interconnect cable is required