Manufacturers: ATI   Products: Radeon 9800 Pro   Availability: Now   Authors:   Date: 4-02-03   Price: $399

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The following list of specifications and features are direct from ATI. For more on the white papers visit ATI.com.

3D GRAPHICS FEATURES

• Eight parallel rendering pipelines process over 3 billion pixels per second
• Four parallel geometry engines process up to 380 million transformed and lit polygons per second
• High precision 32-bit per channel rendering
• 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 fragment shader programs of unlimited length
• 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 inL® via extensions
• High dimension floating point textures
• SMOOTHVISION™2.1
  
• State-of-the-art full-scene anti-aliasing New technology processes over
  
• 18 billion anti-aliasing samples per second for unprecedented performance
• Supports 2x, 4x, and 6x modes with programmable sample patterns
• Advanced anisotropic filtering
• Supports up to 16 trilinear filtered texture samples per pixel
• Efficient adaptive algorithm enables this feature with minimal performance degradation
• HYPER Z™ III+
• Hierarchical Z-Buffer and Early Z Test reduce overdraw by detecting and discarding hidden pixel
• Lossless Z-Buffer Compression and Fast Z-Buffer Clear reduce memory bandwidth consumption by over 50%
• 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 for dynamic LOD
• DirectX9.0 displacement mapping

VIDEO FEATURES

• VIDEOSHADER™
• Seamless integration of programmable pixel shaders with video data
• High quality, hardware accelerated de-blocking of internet streaming video
• Noise removal filter for captured video
• Integrated MPEG-2 decode
• Hardware accelerated iDCT, motion compensation, and color space conversion
• Top quality DVD and all-format DTV/HDTV decode with low
• CPU overhead
• Back-end scaler delivers top quality playback
• Upscaling and downscaling with 4-tap horizontal and vertical filtering
• Filtered display of images up to1920 pixels wide
• Unique per-pixel adaptive de-interlacing feature combines the best elements of the "bob" and "add-field" (weave) techniques

DISPLAY FEATURES

• Dual integrated display controllers
• Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates
• HYDRAVISION™
• software provides complete control over multi-display configurations with a user-friendly interface
• Dual integrated 10-bit per channel palette DACs operating at up to 400MHz
• Integrated 165MHz TMDS transmitter(DVI compliant and HDCP ready)
• Integrated TV-Out support up to1024x768 resolution
• YPrPb output for direct drive of HDTV monitors

GENERAL FEATURES

• Comprehensive 4X and 8X AGP support
• High performance quad-channel DDR/DDR-2M memory interface supports64/128/256MB configurations
• Supports optional THEATER™200 companion chip for NTSC/PAL/SECAM video capture
• Highly optimized 128-bit 2D engine® with support for new Windows XP

TECHNOLOGY FEATURES

• RADEON9800 SERIES™
  
  The cinematic revolution continues with RADEON™ 9800 series, the fastest and most visually advanced 3D performer on the planet. A supercharged, 256-bit DDR memory interface and 8 thrilling pixel pipelines generate the power to deliver real-time, Hollywood caliber graphics for the most demanding next-generation games.
  
  
• Cinematic Rendering
  Backed by highly programmable shader engines and supporting
  the latest Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 andL® feature sets, the
  RADEON™ 9800 series of visual processors is designed to bring the
  most detailed worlds to life with motion picture quality lighting,
  textures and effects.
  
  
• Maximum 3D
  Savor a 3D experience with the sharpest, clearest picture quality
  imaginable, thanks to SMOOTHVISION™ 2.1 and its latest anti-aliasing
  and texture filtering technologies. Add eight parallel rendering
  pipelines, a 256-bit wide memory interface and support for the AGP 8X
  standard, and you have the blazing fast performance to deliver
  interactive frame rates at the highest resolutions and detail settings.
  
  
• Redefining Realism
  128-bit floating-point color precision and powerful programmable shaders of the SMARTSHADER™ 2.1 technology, enable hyper-realistic
  imagery to be displayed with billions of color variations. FULLSTREAM™ removes blocky artifacts from streaming Internet video
  to deliver smoother-looking, higher quality online content. VIDEOSHADER™ integrates programmability to provide unprecedented
  support for digital and high definition video.
  
  
• Generation Now Technology
  RADEON™ 9800 technology is stable, reliable, highly optimized, and represents the industry's only cinematic Visual Processing Unit (VPU) in its 2nd generation. Years of research, engineering, and a historical obsession with image quality have ensured that ATI remains the leader in PC graphics technology.