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Circuit Design,
whether it be at the chip level or board level, is truly an
art form. Electrical Engineers and Architects are
challenged with optimizing functionality, performance and
cost, into an ever shrinking piece of real-estate, either in
Silicon or FR4 PCB material. Faster, smaller and
better is the name of the game and "continuous improvement"
is a given not a variable. Oh, and did we mention your
creative energy needs to be supremely focused within a
blistering 6 month design cycle? Sorry, no breezy 18
month hiatus in Cabo San Lucas for you, after launch day.
Once they take the wraps off your new baby, it's back to the
grind, since the competition is already locked and loaded
with another response to your new "earth-shattering"
creation. At this level of intensity, it's easy to
miss the mark but there's no margin for error.
The Engineers at
ATi certainly are keenly aware of this hostile environment
and as of late, you've got to hand it to them, they've been
executing flawlessly. Comparatively, a flagship ATi
board, like the Radeon 9800 Pro, is a significantly more
efficient, cost effective elegant design than any NVIDIA
high end product. Anyone that has seen a GeForce FX
5900 side by side, versus a Radeon 9800 Pro, can easily
attest to this. Furthermore, if NVIDIA were to even
consider integrating the features of an ATi All In Wonder
product, it would be a monumental undertaking.
As a result, the
product we have on showcase for you today, one would say is
in a league of its own. Featuring ATi's most powerful
VPU, the ATi All-In-Wonder Radeon 9800 Pro also boasts TV
and Multimedia features previously only found in discrete
solutions. This card is targeted at those who want it
all and in one low profile AGP slot. Are all things
"wondrous" with this new high end ATi All-In-Wonder?
We'll try to answer that for you in the pages ahead.
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Features
of the All-In-Wonder RADEON 9800 Pro |
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Top
End Enthusiast Gaming, TV , Video And Multimedia -
You CAN have it all. |
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GRAPHICS TECHNOLOGY
MEMORY CONFIGURATION
3D GRAPHICS
FEATURES
SMARTSHADER? 2.1
Full support for
Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and
pixel shaders in hardware
SMOOTHVISION?
2.1
- State-of-the-art
full-scene anti-aliasing
- Enhances image
quality by eliminating jagged edges and bringing
out fine texture detail, without compromising
performance
HYPER Z? III+
- Hierarchical
Z-Buffer and Early Z Test reduce overdraw by
detecting and discarding hidden pixels
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Bandwidth-conserving technology removes a key
performance bottleneck and provides end users
with faster graphics performance
TRUFORM? 2.0
- 2nd generation
N-patch higher order surface support
- Improves the
appearance and realism of 3D characters,
objects, and images to provide a smoother, more
natural look
DISPLAY FEATURES
- Dual integrated
display controllers
- Drive two
displays simultaneously with independent
resolutions and refresh rates
- HYDRAVISION?
software provides complete control over
multi-display configurations with a
user-friendly interface
- Dual integrated
10-bit per channel palette DACs operating at up
to 400MHz
- Integrated DVI-compliant
165MHz TMDS transmitter supports resolutions up
to WUXGA (1920x1200) Integrated TV-Out support
up to 1024x768 resolution
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VIDEO FEATURES
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VIDEO IMMERSION? II
delivers industry-leading video playback
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FULLSTREAM? Hardware
accelerated de-blocking of Internet video
streams
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Integrated MPEG-2
decode including iDCT and motion compensation:
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All format DTV/HDTV
decode
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Top quality DVD with
lowest CPU usage
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YUV to RGB color
space conversion
- Back-end scaler
delivers top quality playback
- 4-tap horizontal
and vertical filtering
- Upscaling and
downscaling
- Filtered display
of images up to 1920 pixels wide
- Unique per-pixel
adaptive de-interlacing feature combines the
best elements of the ?bob? and ?add-field?
(weave) techniques
- Hardware
mirroring for flipping video images in video
conferencing systems
- Supports 8-bit
alpha blending and video keying for effective
overlay of video and graphics
GENERAL FEATURES
- Comprehensive 2X
and 4X AGP support
- Compatible with
AGP 8X universal motherboards
- High performance
dual-channel 128-bit DDR memory interface
supports 64/128MB configurations
- Fully compliant
with PC 2002 requirements
- Optimized for
Pentium4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon? 3Dnow! processor
instructions
- Supports
optional THEATER? 200 companion chip for
NTSC/PAL/ SECAM video capture
- Highly optimized
128-bit 2D engine with support for new WindowsXP
GDI extensions
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ENTERTAINMENT FEATURES
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Stereo TV tuner with 125 channels
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TV-ON-DEMAND? records programs on your hard
drive, pauses live TV and resumes broadcasts on
your schedule
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Gemstar GUIDE Plus+? provides interactive
programming guides to select, schedule and
record favorite shows
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MULTIMEDIA CENTER? 8.5, industry leading suite
of integrated multimedia applications
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ATI?s new EAZYLOOK?? remote control user
interface
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Radio frequency wireless remote adds the
flexibility of a hand held, 30 foot user
interface
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Video capture and editing including DVD and
VideoCD Authoring
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THRUVIEW? creates live, translucent TV, video
and DVD windows for easy desktop access
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MulTView? enables dual TV tuner capabilities
including Picture-in-Picture and independent
channel surfing*
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THEATER? 200 video decoder and stereo audio
processor with S/PDIF output
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Component Video output via a YPrPb adapter
(Adapter Included)
ALSO INCLUDED
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Remote Wonder RF USB Interface RF Transmitter
and Remote Control
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YPrPb Component Output dongle
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Multimedia Center version 8.5
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