By
Lars Weinand - Editor In Chief RIVA Station / Editor Tomīs Hardware
Guide
Radeon 9800, Continued
The most obvious visual changes compared to the 9700
have been to the board layout. The Radeon 9800 board
is slightly longer, making it look less cluttered overall.
The auxiliary power connector now uses a four-pin Molex
plug, which feels much more stable than the previous
three-pin floppy power plug found on 9700 boards. The
new review board also sports a new heat sink/fan combination.
| |
ATI Radeon 9700 PRO |
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO |
NVIDIA GeForceFX 5800 Ultra |
| Chip Technology |
256-bit |
256-bit |
256-bit |
| Process |
0.15 Micron |
0.15 Micron |
0.13 Micron |
| Transistors |
~107 Million |
~107 Million (?) |
125 Million |
| Memory Bus |
256-bit DDR |
256-bit DDR/DDR2 |
128-bit DDR2 |
| Memory Bandwidth |
19.8 GB/s |
21.8 GB/s |
16 GB/s |
| Pixel Fillrate |
2.6 Gigapixel/s |
3.04 Gigapixel/s |
~4 Gigapixel/s |
| Anti Aliased Fillrate |
15.6 Billion AA Samples/s |
18.2 Billion AA Samples/s |
~16 Billion AA Samples/s |
| Max FSAA Mode |
6x |
6x |
8x |
| Triangle Transform Rate |
325 M Triangles/s |
380 M Triangles/s |
350 M Triangles/s |
| AGP Bus |
1x/2x/4x/8x |
1x/2x/4x/8x |
1x/2x/4x/8x |
| Memory |
128/256MB |
128/256MB |
128/256MB |
| GPU Clock |
325 MHz |
380 MHz |
~500 MHz |
| Memory Clock |
310 MHz (620 DDR) |
340 MHz (680 DDR) |
500 MHz (1000 DDR2) |
| Memory |
BGA 2.9 ns |
? |
BGA 2.0ns |
| Vertex Shader |
4 |
4 |
FP Array |
| Pixel Pipelines |
8 |
8 |
8 (4x2) |
| Texture Units Per Pipe |
1 |
1 |
1 |
| Textures per Texture Unit |
8 |
8 |
16 |
| Vertex S. Version |
2 |
2 |
2.0+ |
| Pixel S. Version |
2 |
2 |
2.0+ |
| DirectX Generation |
9 |
9 |
9.0 (+) |
| FSAA Modi |
MultiSampling |
MultiSampling |
MultiSampling |
| Memory Optmizations |
Hyper Z III |
Hyper Z III+ |
LMA II Optimized
Color Compression |
| Optmizations |
SmartShader 2.0
SmoothVision 2.0 |
SmartShader 2.1
SmoothVision 2.1 |
IntelliSample |
| Display Outputs |
2 |
2 |
2 |
| Chip Internal Ramdacs |
2 x 400 MHz |
2 x 400 MHz |
2 x 400 MHz |
| Chip External Ramdacs |
- |
- |
- |
| Bits per Color Channel |
10 |
10 |
10 |
| Special |
TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStream
Adaptive Filtering |
TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStream
Adaptive Filtering
F-Buffer |
TV Encoder On-Chip
Extended Progammability
Adaptive Filtering |
| Estimated Price |
$399 (old price) |
$399 |
$399 |
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