- MPEG-2 decoding for DVD movie playback
- All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
- YPrPb Component Video Out
- VGA, DVI, & S-Video Connections (TV output supports up to 1024x768 resolution)
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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 calibre graphics for the most demanding next-generation games.
Features
Generation Now Technology
RADEON 9800 PRO MAC SPECIAL 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.
Cinematic Rendering
Backed by highly programmable shader engines and supporting the latest OpenGL feature sets, the RADEON 9800 PRO MAC SPECIAL 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 PRO 8X standard, and you have the blazing fast performance to deliver interactive frame rates at the highest resolutions and detail settings.
Technical Specifications
- 256MB DDR memory
- Dual Integrated 10-bit per channel 400MHz DACs
- Dual 165MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI compliant)
- Multiple display connections
- ADC port
- DVI-I port
- DVI-I to VGA adapter included
System Requirements
- Mac OS X 10.2.8 or 10.3.3 and later
- Power Mac G5
- 512MB of system memory
- Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
- DVD playback requires DVD drive
Graphic 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 technology
- Advanced 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
- 128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point color formats
- Shadow volume rendering acceleration
- 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 up to 6x mode 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 pixels
- Lossless Z-Buffer Compression and Fast Z-Buffer Clear reduce memory bandwidth consumption by over 50%
- Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering
Video Features
- DVD AND QUICKTIME ACCELERATION:
- Top quality DVD and all-format DTV/ HDTV decode with low CPU overhead
- Seamless integration of programmable pixel shaders with video data
- ADVANCED DUAL DISPLAY SUPPORT
- Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates
- Apple Display Connecter built-in
- VERSAVISION provides hardware accelerated display rotation and scaling
Warranty
3-year limited warranty
Product Description
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Special Edition - For those of you who like to ride on the bleeding edge of technology, the Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Special Edition offers you the ultimate in Mac gaming graphics! Supporting today's latest video games, as well as those yet to come, this video card features 256MB of GDDR2 SDRAM, support for both 4x and 8x AGP bus configurations, 8 parallel rendering pipelines, 4 parallel geometry engines, support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 specifications, and much much more. Supports up to 2048x1536 @ 85Hz with 16.7 Million Colors Requires - Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later, AGP 4x or 2x capable Macintosh, Power Mac G5, & 512MB of system memory
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Powerful but at a cost,
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This review is from: ATI Technologies 100-435057 Radeon 9800 Pro Special Mac Edition (Personal Computers)
I upgraded my G5 workstation to this card for better gaming and Motion graphics performance, and it does deliver the on screen portion very well. Everything is super-smooth and beautiful quality.HOWEVER, the heat from the card -- even with its own fan, makes my G5 fans run about 2x the RPM they used to. Consequently my machine is now more noisy, very noisy when playing high performance games. Worse still this thing will heat up a small, closed in office very quickly. You can literally feel the temp rise in the room after a few minutes of heavy use. Last, the instructions that came with the card are wrong as far as power supply connectivity. I think they packaged old instructions with a new card but who knows. So, if you're in a noisy office with good ventilation, you'll love this card. Otherwise think twice about the environmental consequences before you plunk the money down.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Nice upgrade,
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This review is from: ATI Technologies 100-435057 Radeon 9800 Pro Special Mac Edition (Personal Computers)
This was a great upgrade for my aging Power Mac 1.6 GHz. These are getting harder to find and more and more expensive.
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