The ATI Radeon™ HD 4830 graphics card is the latest addition to the award winning ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 series lineup and comes packed with the power and premium features you need to take gaming to the extreme. This graphics card raises the performance bar in its class, making it the perfect choice for gamers who recognize a great deal.
Features & Benefits- Max out the settings and run the most demanding next-generation HD games with enhanced anti-aliasing (AA) and support for Microsoft DirectX® 10.1.
- Delivers an amazing balance of power and performance that will drive you deep into your game play with blazing frame rates and optimal power efficiency.
- Watch the latest Blu-ray movies play with incredible fidelity and have the freedom to edit videos and convert video formats at lightning-fast speeds.
- More Performance Per Watt - ATI Radeon HD 4800 series delivers up to 2x the performance per watt of AMD’s previous generation GPUs.
Specifications * 956 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
* PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
* 256-bit GDDR3 memory interface
* Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support
o Shader Model 4.1
o 32-bit floating point texture filtering
o Indexed cube map arrays
o Independent blend modes per render target
o Pixel coverage sample masking
o Read/write multi-sample surfaces with shaders
o Gather4 texture fetching
* Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
o 640 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
o 128-bit floating point precision for all operations
o Command processor for reduced CPU overhead
o Shader instruction and constant caches
o Up to 160 texture fetches per clock cycle
o Up to 128 textures per pixel
o Fully associative multi-level texture cache design
o DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression
o High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
o Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs
o Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer
o Early Z test and Fast Z Clear
o Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1)
o Lossless color compression (up to 8:1)
o Up to 8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing
o Accelerated physics processing
* Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
o High performance vertex cache
o Programmable tessellation unit
o Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification
o Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance
* Anti-aliasing features
o Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4, or 8 samples per pixel)
o Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality
o Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
o Gamma correct
o Super AA (ATI CrossFireX™ configurations only)
o All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering
* Texture filtering features
o 2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel)
o 128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering
o sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)
o Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF)
o Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support
o Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support
* OpenGL 3.1 support
* ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform1
o Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2) for H.264/AVC, VC-1, and MPEG-2 video formats
+ High definition (HD) playback of Blu-ray and HD DVD video2
+ Dual stream (HD+SD) playback support
+ DirectX Video Acceleration 1.0 & 2.0 support
+ Support for BD-Live certified applications
o Hardware DivX and MPEG-1 video decode acceleration
+ ATI Avivo Video Post Processor1
+ 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
+ Color vibrance and flesh tone correction
+ Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
+ Bad edit correction
+ Enhanced DVD upscaling (SD to HD)
+ Automatic dynamic contrast adjustment
o 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
o 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)3
o Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content4
o Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs
+ Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x15363
o DisplayPort output support
+ 24- and 30-bit displays at all resolutions up to 2560x16003
o HDMI output support
+ All display resolutions up to 1920x10803
+ Integrated HD audio controller with support for stereo and multi-channel (up to 7.1) audio formats, including AC-3, AAC, DTS5, enabling a plug-and-play audio solution over HDMI
o Integrated AMD Xilleon™ HDTV encoder
+ Provides high quality analog TV output (component/S-video/composite)
+ Supports SDTV and HDTV resolutions
+ Underscan and overscan compensation
o Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
o VGA mode support on all display outputs
* ATI PowerPlay™ Technology6
o Advanced power management technology for optimal performance and power savings
o 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
o ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology7
+ Scale up rendering performance and image quality with two, three, or four GPUs
+ Integrated compositing engine
+ High performance dual channel bridge interconnect8
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