Building on the success of its midrange families of graphics accelerators, leading graphics supplier Sapphire Technology has just added several new members to the X1650 series.

The new X1650 series is an enhancement of the successful X1600 series and has been designed to deliver high efficiency, high performance in Shader Model 3.0 and enhanced image quality. The architecture also supports ATI AvivoTM technology delivering vibrant high fidelity images and video playback to the latest High Definition (HD) video standards. The AGP version delivers new affordable levels of display quality and performance over this industry standard graphics interface.

The SAPPHIRE X1650 with its 12 Shader processor units and 4 Pixel pipelines provides excellent graphics performance even for shader intensive gaming and is Microsoft Vista PREMIUM certified. Equipped with either 512MB or 256MB of GDDR2 memory, this model features core clock speeds of 500MHz and memory speeds of 800 MHz.

Also available now, the new SAPPHIRE X1650 AGP shares the same features as the PCI-Express models. Two versions are available, both running at 500MHz core clock speeds but offering a choice of 256 MB or 512 MB of DDR2 memory running at 800MHz.

SAPPHIRE's latest graphics cards are Microsoft Windows Vista ready and supported by the ATI Catalyst suite of software, ensuring customers have easy and ongoing access to software updates for performance, stability and added features