Overview

The cinematic revolution continues with the Radeon™ 9800 series, an advanced 3D graphics card that supports AGP design specifications. A powered with a 256-bit DDR memory interface and 8-pixel pipelines, Radeon™ 9800 delivers real-time, Hollywood-caliber graphics for the most demanding games.

Blazing Performance
Radeon™ 9800 series powers through demanding 3D titles, scenes and environments. Complex shader effects and full precision computation are rendered at excellent frame rates, resulting in smooth, interactive animation of organic, complex environments.

Cinematic Rendering
Backed by highly programmable cinematic shader engines and support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 and OpenGL® feature sets, the Radeon™ 9800 Series is designed to bring the most detailed worlds to life with motion picture quality effects. Employing billions of color variations and high precision pixel processing, Radeon™ 9800 series delivers cinematic graphics with quality and consistency.

Virtual Perfection
Experience impeccable 3D visual realism with the advanced engineering of ATI technology. SmoothVision™ 2.1 delivers the sharpest, clearest picture quality imaginable. SmartShader™ 2.1 enables 128-bit full floating point precision for hyper-realistic imagery. FullStream™ removes blocky artifacts from streaming Internet video to deliver smoother looking, higher quality online content.

Next Generation Gameplay
Radeon™ 9800 series of graphics processors beats with the heart of a champion, thanks to ATI’s cinematic Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) in its 3rd generation. Backed by the latest ATI Catalyst™ software suite, Radeon™ 9800 series optimizes performance, power and stability to surpass the most exacting gameplay requirements.