RADEON™ 9800XT is the ultimate accelerator of the most demanding next-generation 3D titles, scenes and environments
Featuring highly programmable cinematic shader engines and support for the latest Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 and OpenGL® feature sets
Experience unparalleled 3D visual realism with the advanced engineering of ATI technology
RADEON™ 9800 series beats with the heart of a champion, backed by the latest CATALYST™ software suite

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, AMD® Athlon® or higher 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 XT, RADEON™ 9800 PRO, or RADEON™ 9800 graphics technology

Memory Configuration
128MB or 256MB of double data rate SDRAM

Operating Systems Support
Windows® XP
Windows® 2000
Windows® Me

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

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

Windows® Logo Program compliant