PowerMac G5 ATI Radeon 9800XT 256MB (DVI/VGA/S-Video) (AGP) Video Card Description
ATI has announced a follow-up to its high-end Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card. Dubbed the Radeon 9800 XT, the new card offers faster engine and memory speeds.
Upside:
We have yet to run the Radeon 9800 XT through our benchmarks, but going by specs alone, it could be the fastest card on the market right now. It has 256MB of graphics memory running at 730MHz and a core engine speed of 412MHz. It's also designed to take advantage of the next-generation DirectX 9.0 games that will be introduced shortly.
Downside:
The Radeon 9800 XT's $499 price--for what's essentially a speed bump--could be hard to justify, especially if you already have the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro.
Outlook:
Thanks to the Radeon 9800 Pro, ATI currently dominates rival Nvidia in the ultracompetitive graphics-card market. By partnering with the makers of Half Life 2, the highly anticipated first-person shooter game that will be available later this year, ATI has positioned the XT as the card to own for the next generation of games. However, the only constant in graphics cards is change, and Nvidia is expected to release new technologies of its own very soon.
This item is a Refurbished, Apple original part. This is a special order part and will take 1-3 days to ship. Features - This card is faster than the ATI 9800 256MB Special Edition, and much quieter because of the oversized fan
- Two video ports for dual monitors together! One is DVI and the other ADC (carries USB, video and power signals together)
- If you have an ATI 9600 or nVidia FX5200 card in your G5, this card is a giant step up in 2D and 3D performance. Mac OS X (unlike Windows!) uses the video card for all kinds of tasks besides 3D games
- Every window on the screen is composed using the video card, so everything from window dragging to Exposé to iPhoto will be dramatically smoother when you upgrade to this card
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
HyperZ 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
System Requirements
System Requirements: - Mac OS X 10.2.8 or 10.3.3 and later
- 512MB of system memory
- Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
- DVD playback requires DVD drive
Min Operating system: - Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP
- Microsoft Windows
- Millennium Edition
Dimensions
Package Dimension: Length 11" x Width 7 4/16" Product Specs - Video output interface type: AGP 8x
- Enclosure Type: Plug-in card
- Video Output: Type Graphics adapter
- Graphics Processor/Vendor: ATI RADEON 9800 XT
- Video RAM installed: 256 MB
- Memory Clock Speed: 730 MHz
- RAMDAC Clock Speed: 400 MHz
- Max resolution: 2048 x 1536
- Video Output / Graphics Processor / Vendor: ATI RADEON 9800 XT
- Video memory technology: DDR SDRAM
- Max Resolution (external): 2048 x 1536:85 Hz
- Color max resolution (external): 32-bit color
- Supported display graphics: 1152x864, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 1920x1440, VGA (640x480), SVGA (800x600), XGA (1024x768), QXGA (2048x1536), SXGA (1280x1024), UXGA (1600x1200)
- Analog Video Format: S-Video
- Digital video standard: Digital Visual Interface (DVI)
- API Supported: OpenGL, DirectX
- Max monitors supported: 2
- Slot(s) Required: 1 AGP
- Dual Integrated 10-bit per channel 400MHz DACs
- Dual 165MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI compliant)
- Multiple display connections
- ADC port
- DVI-I port
Includes - Radeon 9800 XT/256 video card
- Molex power cable
Notes
RADEON-9800-XT, 109-A18800-10, A9800XT, A9800XT/TVD I have a graphics card allready and dont need two great ones. |
