Strike Force: The new ATI Radeon 9800, 9600 and 9200 Series

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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.

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Header Cell - Column 0	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	128/256 MB	128/256 MB	128/256 MB
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 OptimizedColor Compression
Optmizations	SmartShader 2.0SmoothVision 2.0	SmartShader 2.1SmoothVision 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; FullStreamAdaptive Filtering	TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStreamAdaptive FilteringF-Buffer	TV Encoder On-ChipExtended ProgammabilityAdaptive Filtering
Estimated Price	$399 (old price)	$399	$399