The RADEON™ 9800 series of visual processors is the most visually advanced 3D performer on the planet, delivering an immersive, cinematic experience for the most demanding next-generation games with up to 256MB of DDR memory and a 256-bit memory interface. Merging advanced stability with revolutionary features, RADEON™ 9800 series is the only Visual Processing family in its 3rd generation.

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At-a-glance

• RADEON™ 9800 series is the ultimate accelerator of the most demanding next-generation 3D titles, scenes and environments
• Featuring highly programmable cinematic shader engines and support for the latest Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 and OpenGL® feature sets
• Experience unparalleled 3D visual realism with the advanced engineering of ATI technology
• RADEON™ 9800 series beats with the heart of a champion, backed by the latest CATALYST™ software suite

Overview

Cinematic Rendering

• Up to 256MB of DDR memory provides increased performance when rendering high resolution textures, characters, and environments
• 256-bit memory interface delivers the bandwidth for real-time 3D graphics and barrier-free performance
• 8-pixel pipeline architecture doubles the rendering power of other graphics processors

Maximum 3D

• SMARTSHADER™ 2.1 supports the latest Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 feature set, enabling cinematic quality lighting and shadow effects.
• SMOOTHVISION™ 2.1 delivers the sharpest, clearest textures without sacrificing frame rates.
• 128-bit full floating point precision enables billions of color variations to render the same lighting and effects as Hollywood studios.
• Featuring CATALYST™, the industry's most stable 3D acceleration software.

Generation Now Technology

• Supports the latest Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 and OpenGL® feature sets, ensuring long-term compatibility with the hottest gaming releases.
• FULLSTREAM™ removes blocky artifacts from streaming Internet video to deliver smoother looking, higher quality online content.
• VIDEOSHADER™ integrates features to provide unprecedented support for digital and high definition video.

Only Products designed and built by ATI offer:

• Hassle-free manufacturers warranty
• Responsive and knowledgeable Customer Service Team
• Extensive online user resources and updates through ATI.com
• Feature-rich, frequently updated, ATI designed CATALYST™ software

Specifications

System Requirements

• RADEON™ 9800 Series of products requires connection to your PC's internal power supply for operation. Consult your system builder or OEM to ensure your system has an adequate power supply. Otherwise, ATI recommends a 300-Watt power supply or greater to ensure normal system operation where a number of other internal devices are installed.
• Intel® Pentium® 4, AMD® Athlon® or higher with AGP 8X (0.8v), 4X (1.5V) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (8X/4X)
• 128MB of system memory
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
• DVD playback requires DVD drive

Graphics Technology

• RADEON™ 9800 XT, RADEON™ 9800 PRO, or RADEON™ 9800 graphics technology

Memory Configuration

• 128MB or 256MB of double data rate SDRAM

Operating Systems Support

• Windows® XP
• Windows® 2000
• Windows® Me

Features

• Eight parallel rendering pipelines
• Four parallel geometry engines
• 256-bit DDR memory interface
• AGP 8X support
• SMARTSHADER™ 2.1
  • Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware
  • 2.0 Vertex Shaders support vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with flow control
  • 2.0 Pixel Shaders support up to 16 textures per rendering pass
  • New F-buffer technology supports pixel shader programs with unlimited instructions
  • 128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point color formats
  • Multiple Render Target (MRT) support
  • Shadow volume rendering acceleration
  • Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® via extensions
• SMOOTHVISION™ 2.1
  • 2x/4x/6x full scene anti-aliasing modes
  • Adaptive algorithm with programmable sample patterns
  • 2x/4x/8x/16x anisotropic filtering modes
    • Adaptive algorithm with bi-linear (performance) and tri-linear (quality) options
• HYPER Z™ III+
  • 3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with early Z test
  • Lossless Z-Buffer compression (up to 24:1)
  • Fast Z-Buffer Clear
  • Z cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering
• TRUFORM™ 2.0
  • 2nd generation N-Patch higher order surface support
  • Discrete and continuous tessellation levels per polygon
  • Displacement mapping
• VIDEOSHADER™
  • Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video
  • FULLSTREAM™ video de-blocking technology
  • Noise removal filtering for captured video
• MPEG-2 decoding with motion compensation, iDCT and color space conversion
• All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
• YPrPb component output*
• Adaptive de-interlacing and frame rate conversion
• Dual integrated display controllers
• Dual integrated 10-bit per channel 400 MHz DACs
• Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI 1.0 compliant and HDCP ready)
• Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution
• Windows® Logo Program compliant

*with optional HDTV adapter available from UserEasy

Warranty

• 3-year limited warranty

Mode Tables

2D DISPLAY MODES
Resolutions, colors and maximum refresh rates (Hz) in 256, 65K or 16.7M colors

Monitor Resolution	Hz
640x480	200
800x600	200
1024x768	200
1152x864	200
1280x1024	160
1600x1200	120
1920x1080* 16:9	120
1920x1200	100
1920x1440	90
2048x1536	85

*16:9 aspect ratio monitors are supported on 1920x1080 and 848x480 on Windows® XP, Windows® 2000 and Windows® ME. The complete list of resolutions depends on the driver version and operating system. NOTE: resolutions are limited by the performance of the attached monitor.

MAXIMUM 3D RESOLUTIONS
  (with 128MB Frame Buffer)

65K colors	2048x1536
16.7M colors	2048x1536

 

Product Comparison

	RADEON 9800 XT	RADEON 9800 PRO	RADEON 9800 PRO	RADEON 9800
Frame Buffer	256MB DDR	256MB GDDR2	128MB DDR	128MB DDR
Memory Interface	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Rendering Pipelines	8	8	8	8
Pixel Fillrate (Gpixels/sec)	3.3	3.04	3.04	2.6
Engine Clock (MHz)	412	380	380	325
Memory Clock (MHz)	730	700	680	580
Output Connections	VGA + TV + DVI	VGA + TV + DVI	VGA + TV + DVI	VGA + TV + DVI

 

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