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Review: 'Connect3D' ATi Radeon 9800 Pro

by Tarinder Sandhu on 6 March 2003, 00:00 4.5

Tags: Connect 3D

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Official specification


 

Graphics Technology
  • RADEON™ 9800 PRO Visual Processing Unit (VPU) running at 380MHz
Memory Configuration
  • 128MB of double data rate SDRAM (DDR-I) running at 680MHz DDR
Display Support
  • VGA connector for analog CRT
  • S-video or composite connector for TV / VCR
  • DVI-I connector for digital CRT or flat panel
  • Independent resolutions and refresh rates for any two connected displays
Features
  • Eight parallel rendering pipelines
  • Four parallel geometry engines
  • 256-bit DDR memory interface
  • AGP 8X support
  • SMARTSHADER 2.1
    • Programmable pixel and vertex shaders
    • 16 textures per pass
    • F-Buffer technology supports fragment shader programs of unlimited length
    • Vertex shaders up to 65,280 instructions with flow control
    • Multiple render target support
    • Shadow volume rendering acceleration
    • High precision 10-bit per channel frame buffer support
    • Supports DirectX® 9.0 and the latest version of OpenGL
  • 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
      • Improved anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering at high settings
         
  • 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 optimised for real-time shadow rendering
       
  • TRUFORM
    • 2nd generation N-Patch higher order surface support
    • Discrete and continuous tessellation levels per polygon
    • Displacement mapping via hardware
  • VIDEOSHADER
    • Seamless integration of progammable 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 & HDCP compliant)
  • Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution
  • Optimized for Pentium® 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon™ 3Dnow

Impressive, eh ?. I've highlighted the main changes from the Radeon 9700 Pro in bold.

 

 

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