Compare ATI RADEON® X850 CrossFire Edition, (256 MB) PCI Express Video Card to Matrox (CompressHD MCHD) PCI Express Video Card

The RADEON? X850 256 MB PCIE Graphics Card - CrossFire edition from ATI? provides visually stunning gaming experience for the avid gamer by optimizing graphics performance and image quality. CrossFire? propels your gaming PC to a pinnacle of performance with the ultimate multi-GPU consumer graphics solution. It features a fast and efficient 256 MB of GDDR3 memory. With up to 16 parallel pixel pipelines and excellent image enhancement technology, the RADEON? X850 provides a smooth, responsive High Definition gaming experience. Featuring the Smartshader? HD pixel shader engine, the card combines texture filtering with 3Dc? image enhancement technology to deliver brilliant image quality. This card also offers hardware acceleration of video for reduced CPU utilization which increases overall system performance. Comprehensive support for industry-standard video formats, such as MPEG1/2/4, Real Media, DivX and WMV9 is also included. Less

If you?re a professional content creator delivering H.264 files for Blu-ray, the web, and mobile devices, you need a fast, flexible, high quality encoding workhorse. Matrox CompressHD is the first implementation of Matrox MAX technology in an amazingly affordable H.264 accelerator card. It lets you create H.264 files, for resolutions ranging from iPod to HD, faster than real time. It works in systems with or without a video I/O device and extends the life of your current system investment, giving you the power you need to deliver today?s premium H.264 formats faster than ever. This low profile, half-length PCIe x1 card fits into Mac Pros, Intel-based Apple Xserve systems, and PCs. Get yourself a Matrox CompressHD card and deliver your projects in a fraction of the time. Less