Ati Radeon 9800 Pro Agp 128mb Graphics Card

[rossman]

Just upgraded my card so have this to sell

ATI RADEON 9800 PRO AGP 128MB GRAPHICS CARD

25 quid delivered or happy to trade for games

can take BT or paypal (if you cover the fees)

ross

[ChrisF]

How does the performance of these compare to a GeForce 6600 with 128mb ram? And what kind of outputs does it have?

Ta

[rossman]

its has a dvi and a vga and an svideo I think

as for comparisions, heres the specs from ati website

ross




Specifications

Here's the card's specifications taken from ATI's website.

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

MPEG-2 decoding with motion compensation, iDCT and color space conversion
All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
YPrPb component output
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
Optimized for Pentium® 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon™ 3Dnow!
Windows® Logo Program compliant

[JohnMcL7]

The 9800Pro and 6600GT are fairly similar in performance, they both have eight pipelines although the 9800 has 256bit and the 6600 128 bit memory. However, the 6600GT still edges out the ATi card plus it has SM3.0 and Purevideo support, here is a summary of the performance difference:

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2277&p=3

Note the standard 6600 (with no suffix) is slower than the 6600GT, the latter was the fastest version of the 6600 series.

Hope this helps,
John

[ChrisF]

Thanks guys.. I need a Dual DVI card though unfortunately (Sorry rossman!)

[Redsquirrel]

just use a VGA to dvi adapter?

[JohnMcL7]

Not that easy - if you have a DVI-D port then you can use a converter to get a VGA signal as the port carries both analogue and digital, you are simply extracting the analogue component. To get VGA from a DVI port you need an actual converter which is not cheap as it does actually need to convert the signal from one standard to another unlike DVI -> VGA which is not really a converter, just an adapter.

John