Designed specifically for users of Apple's Power Mac desktop systems (Mac OS X version 10.2.5 or higher), the ATI Technologies Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition graphics card takes visual realism and performance for games and 3D animation to exciting new heights. The Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition offers full OpenGL support and full floating-point architecture to deliver all the performance and power of the standard Radeon 9800 Pro, with the added feature of ATI's VersaVision display rotation, a versatile dual display configurable for either landscape or portrait display.
With 8 parallel rendering pipelines, a 256-bit memory interface, and 128 MB double-data-rate (DDR) memory, the card is capable of executing up to 8.4 billion instructions per second and delivering an astounding 21 GB per second of memory bandwidth. The graphics board's display flexibility supports multiple displays through its VGA, DVI, and S-video outputs.
SmoothVision anti-aliasing technology enhances image quality using programmable multi-sampling methods to post-process graphics before they are actually displayed. SmartShader makes both the geometry- and pixel-processing stages more programmable than ever so developers can easily create new graphics effects while maintaining high performance. Finally, Hyper Z makes Z-buffer bandwidth usage more efficient by decreasing the amount of information sent to the frame buffer.
VersaVision lets you rotate your display while maintaining the full feature set of other ATI 2D and 3D technologies. ATI's hardware-accelerated display rotation and scaling technology allows for rotation left or right by 90 degrees, or you can flip it upside down for a full 180-degree rotation. Relative Rotation allows you to rotate the contents of your display. The card maintains full 3D support regardless of your selected rotation. (A revert button undoes all changes and sets everything to the original state or last known good setting.)
Note: Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition only displays 3D graphics in thousands and millions of colors. When you set your display to 256 colors, this will affect Finder, OpenGL, Quartz Extreme, and QuickTime acceleration.
Product Description:
MODEL- 100-435050 VENDOR- A T I FEATURES- Radeon 9800 PRO Mac Edition- Retail package AGP 128MB DDR Radeon 9800 PRO Graphics Processing Unit with TV out and DVI support. The cinematic revolution continues with the RADEON 9800 MAC EDITION 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. Includes video card DVI-I to VGA & S-Video to Composite adapters manual. * Cinematic Rendering Backed by highly programmable shader engines and supporting the latest OpenGL feature sets the RADEON 9800 PRO MAC EDITION 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 4X 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. * VIDEOSHADER integrates programmability to provide unprecedented support for digital and high definition video. * Generation Now Technology RADEON 9800 PRO MAC EDITION is ATI s most advanced Visual Processing Unit (VPU) and is optimized to run the most demanding 3D next-generation games and applications. * VERSAVISION allows you to view your desktop the way you want providing hardware accelerated display rotation and scaling. -- SPECIFICATIONs -----------INTERFACE/BUS- 32-bit AGP 8x/4x/2x MEMORY - 128MB DDR SDRAMCHIPSET - RADEON 9800 PRO grap...