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                                                                                       RADEON 9800

Text Box: 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/III, Celeron™ II, AMD® K7/Athlon®/ Athlon® XP 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 PRO graphics technology Memory Configuration 128MB or 256MB of double data rate SDRAM Operating Systems Support Windows® XP Windows® 2000 * Windows® Me * Windows® 2000 drivers for the 256MB version should be available on ati.com in May 2003   Display Support VGA connector for analog CRT S-video or composite connector for TV / VCR DVI-I connector for digital CRT or flat panel Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates 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 Optimized for Pentium® 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon™ 3Dnow! Windows® Logo Program compliant Warranty 3-year limited warranty