The Sapphire HD 5850 model has the on board hardware UVD (Unified Video decoder) considerably reducing CPU load and delivering smooth decoding of Blu-ray and HD DVD content for both VC-1 and H 264 codecs, as well as Mpeg files In this series the UVD has been enhanced to be able simultaneously to decode two 1080p HD video streams and to be able to display HD video in high quality with Windows Aero mode enabled It also supports ATI Stream, accelerating applications such as Video transcoding by processing on the GPU Stream Processors rather than the system CPU
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