Albatron Technology has announced the new Blue Ray Decoder Card which gives mainstream users an alternative to integrated graphics, the company says. This graphics card can provide even basic systems with high-definition (HD) video playback including Blu-ray and HD DVD and also supports DirectX 10, boosting 3D graphics performance for Windows Vista, it adds.
Beneath the surface the Blue Ray Decoder appears to be an Nvidia GeForce 8500GT GPU-based graphics card which supports Nvidia PureVideo HD technology. Marketing the card by focusing on HD decode acceleration instead of 3D performance is an interesting move by Albatron, and could help it to differentiate itself in the crowded Nvidia add-in board market.
| Albatron Blue Ray Decoder Card specification | |
| Item | Detail |
| Stream Processors | 16 |
| Core clock | 450MHz |
| Memory | 256MB DDR3 |
| Memory interface | 128-bit |
| Memory clock | 800MHz |
| Graphics Bus | PCI Express |
| Memory bandwidth (GB/s) | 12.8 |
| Fill Rate (billion pixels/sec.) | 3.6 |
| Vertices/sec. (million) | 2200 |
| Pixels per clock(peak) | 48 |
| RAMDACs (MHz) | 400 |
| Resolution | Dual-link DVI supports 2560×1600 |
| Output | DVI and HDTV Out |
Source: Company, compiled by Digitimes, July 2007
Albatron Blue Ray Decoder Card
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