ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 Series - Overview

1. ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 Series – Overview

Experience the power of HD

2. Advance to the Next Generation of HD Gaming

Advance to the next
generation of gaming with
incredible performance, lifelike graphics and support for
the latest Microsoft®
DirectX® 10.1. With PCI
Express® 2.0 support, you’re
ready for games that will
demand faster throughput.
And thanks to plug-and-play
ATI CrossFireX™
upgradeability, it is easy to
turbo-charge your 3D
performance.

3. 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.

4. 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 a smaller format that runs cooler, you
can pack more performance in your system at an
extraordinary value.

5. ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series – Key Features

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.
Incredible 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.
320 Stream Processors – More than enough horsepower to support the most
demanding graphics applications.
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.
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.
Ultimate Image Quality – Performance that rivals high-end HD-DVD and
Blu-ray players on displays with resolutions that exceed 1080p – up to
2560x1600.

6. ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series – Key Features, part 2

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.

7. ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 Series - GPU Specifications

ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 Series GPU Specifications
666 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
256-bit GDDR3/GDDR4 memory interface
Ring Bus Memory Controller
Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support
Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
Anti-aliasing features
Texture filtering features
OpenGL 2.0 support
ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform
ATI PowerPlay™
ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology

8. ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 Series – System Requirements

PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the
motherboard
450 Watt or greater power supply with 75 Watt 6-pin PCI Express® power connector
recommended (550 Watt and two 6-pin connectors for dual ATI CrossFireX™)
Certified power supplies are recommended
1GB of system memory
Installation software requires an optical drive
DVD playback requires DVD drive
Blu-ray™ / HD DVD playback requires a Blu-ray / HD DVD drive
For a complete ATI CrossFireX™ system, additional ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 series
graphics card(s), an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX
Bridge Interconnect cable per board (included) are required