Taipei, Taiwan, Jan 2005 – GIGABYTE Technology Co. formally announces the release of its TurboForce edition X800 graphics accelerators, the GV-RX80256D. The release of the GV-RX80 series is concurrent with the recent launch of ATI top-of-the-line RADEON™ X800 VPU. The GV-RX80 series applies the advanced level of VPU introduced by ATi, and with the extreme enhancement from SMARTSHADER™ HD, SMOOTHVISION™ HD and revolutionary 3Dc™ engine.

Powered by the ATI® RADEON® 800 chipset, the GV-RX80 series graphics card uses high-level 0.11 micrometer processing and includes a 16x PCI-Express interface. The GV-RX80 series graphics cards offer power and performance with 12 pixel pipelines and with 6 vertex pipelines, with a clock speed of up to 392 MHz, and GDDR3 with clock speed up to 700 MHz. Above all, exciting enhancement has been brought by GIGA-BYTE exclusive TurboForce technology with up to 11% tweaked performance and with SilentPipe to make possible amazing performance with absolute silence.

The GV-RX80 series has market leading spec– it supports DirectX®9.0c, providing gamers with platform efficiency and the best picture quality with sharp and accurate colors, delivering a 3D Benchmark value up to 10,198 and a superb gaming performance guaranteed. For supreme video experience, RX80 series fully supports HDTV function up to 2048x1536 dpi, and with VEDIOSHADER™, seamless integration of pixel shaders and real-time video will present users a visual experience of tomorrow.