Microz ATI Radeon 9800 XT Graphics Card

Here is my summary of the Radeon 9800 XT:

Microsoft directx 9.0 support

Opengl 1.3+ support

Smartshader 2.1

Smoothvision ver 2.1

Fullstream

Catalyst

Hyper z 3.0+

Hydravision support

Specifications

Graphics technology

Radeon 9800 xt graphics technology

Memory configuration

256mb of double data rate SDRAM

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

Package content:

* radeon 9800xt 256mb video card

* s-video cable(s-video to VCR for TV out)

* DVI to CRT adapter for dual view

* CD driver

* manual