|  The Creative Radeon 9800XT is the ultimate graphics card for the ultra-gamer. Designed to set the pace in cutting-edge 3D performance, it gives a totally immersive and cinematic performance with today's leading games technologies. With its unique 8-pipeline graphics throughput, 256MB DDR memory, 256-bit interface and legendary Radeon Visual Processing Unit (VPU), it comes with a range of powerful, sophisticated tools that enable users to optimise the visual impact of any game. This pace-setting system offers total support for DirectX 9.0 feature sets and supports dual monitor output as well as interactive and internet gaming, making it the ultimate system for the advanced market. -
Designed to deliver world-class 3D speed and immersion, with real-time cinematic rendering and animation. -
256MB DDR memory, 256-bit memory interface and 8-pixel pipeline architecture for fast frame rates and ultimate performance with 3D graphics. -
SMARTSHADER 2.1 and SMOOTHVISION 2.1 for full DirectX 9.0 support with optimum lighting effects and sharper, clearer textures. -
FULLSTREAM and VIDEOSHADER for ultra-smooth, high-quality streaming internet content. -
128-bit floating-point precision for billions of colour variations. -
ATI’s advanced VPU for optimum results in all gaming content Features: -
Eight parallel rendering pipelines -
Four parallel geometry engines -
256MB DDR memory @ 730MHz -
256-bit DDR memory interface -
AGP 8X support (also supports 2X & 4X) -
Supports Microsoft DirectX 9.0 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 colour space conversion
- All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
- 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
Display Support - VGA connector for analogue CRT
- S-video connector for TV / VCR
- DVI-I connector for digital flat panel (or 2nd VGA monitor)
- Independent resolutions and refresh rates for any two connected displays
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