14 DAY TRIAL // Micro-Star International unveiled its latest series of graphic cards, the ATI R3870X2, R3600, and R3400, built on AMD's 55-nanometer GPUs in the Radeon HD 3000 series. The graphics cards come with industry-leading HD quality and improved gaming experience with life-like 3D graphics.
The ATI R3870X2 graphics card mixes high-definition with 3D processing performance. The card comes with full support for the upcoming version of Microsoft's DirectX, the 10.1 that will arrive with the Windows Vista SP1. The dual ATI R3870 GPUs can deliver a GPU computing power of over 1Teraflops. Moreover, the graphics performance can be scaled thanks to the included ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU technology.
The ATI Radeon HD 3600 series of graphics card are aiming at the mainstream computer users. The new 55-nanometer graphics processors are made of 378 million transistors and feature the second-generation integration built-in rendering framework.
"The new ATI Radeon HD 3600 family core has 256 bit ring-bus memory control capabilities, with high-speed GDDR3 512MB, and other ultra-realistic graphics memory particles, and efficiency is superior to the same price competitors products. This mid-range product gives user adequate multilateral geometry, color rendering, and high-speed image pixels, and other computing support, it can be said that this product has all the cost-effective advantages," said Vincent Lai, MSI global marketing director.
The MSI R3400 series graphics cards are built around the ATI Radeon HD 3400 family of graphics processors. Just like the above-mentioned chips, the R3400 is also built on the 55-nanometer process node. The GPU is a scaled-down version of the R3600 and comes with less stream processors, texture units and ROPs. The MSI R3400 is fully compatible with the upcoming DirectX 10.1 and also allows performance scaling via the ATI CrossFireX link. The low-end and mid-range card offerings include ATI Hybrid Graphics, that is based on the CrossFireX multiGPU technology.