the first photos of videocards Radeon X1600 Pro from Sapphire manufacture with HDMI port have appeared in January , in March similar videocards were shown by other manufacturers, but nobody start them in mass production.
At last, two day ago company Sapphire Technology officially announced videocard Radeon X1600 Pro HDMI which is equipped with interface HDMI 1.1. This budget videocard from Radeon X1600 Pro series works with frequencies of 500/800 MHz and equipped with 256 Mb memory of type GDDR-3 . Pay attention - that the frequency of the memory is equal only to 800 MHz DDR that is not enough even for the slowest GDDR-3 memory . If the cooling system and voltage of memory will not hold, memory can be highly overclocked. for this time the memory used was from Samsung with 1.4 nanoseconds.


Output HDMI supports resolution up to 1920x1080, and the D-Sub output supports resolution up to 2048x1536.


The videocard support protection technology " to protect content from not authorized copying " ( HDCP ).
Deliveries of Sapphire Radeon X1600 Pro HDMI will begin next week, the retail price of 256 Mb version is equal $170. Similar videocards without support of HDMI cost less than $145,