HD Video Graphics Cards for Seamlessly Viewing Movies and Resource Intensive Games

With the coming up of HDTV PC, no components has changed so much than the graphics or video card. For viewing HD videos, most of the lower-end PCs rely on an onboard chip for graphics card that may provide a marginal HDTV support. A high-quality graphics card inserted in your PC will ensure a jerk-free picture display. Some of the new mid to higher end HD Video graphics cards support onboard decoding of H.264 specs which is mostly used for displaying your 1080p or high definition DVDs. Some also include HDCP required for the playback of Blu-ray DVD. Some of the top-quality HD video graphics cards have been discussed ahead.

The Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 (21162-00-xxR) is a single GPU graphics card that belongs to the Cypress LE chipset series. As a newer more advanced model, this GPU clearly ranks ahead of cheaper graphics cards. Moreover, it comes with a PCIe 2.0 slot and has a memory size of 1024 MB. The stream processing units of one of the best HD video graphics card is 1,440 and the production process is 40 nm. It has an active cooling and comes with 2 height slots.

The next product in the range of HD Video graphics cards is the Powercolor Radeon HD 4850 PCS 1024MB GDDR3. It comes with dual link 2x DVI interfaces, TV Out and HDMI interface as well. The GDDR3 memory type has a size of 2048 MB and the memory interface is 256 Bit. There is a proprietary developed active cooling provided in the HD video graphics card and it also has 10.1 DirectX support and 4.1 Shader Model.