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ATI ships Radeon 9800. (graphics cards).(Brief Article)

Computer Graphics World

| June 01, 2003 | Donelan, Jenny | COPYRIGHT 2003 PennWell Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

ATI's Radeon 9800 Pro visual processing unit (VPU), which is a fancy name for an admittedly fancy chip, began shipping this spring, and graphics cards based on the VPU are now available to OEM, retail, distribution, and online customers. The 9800 Pro supports OpenGL and Microsoft's DirectX 9. It features ATI's SmoothVision 2.1, designed to deliver clear, sharp textures without sacrificing frame rates, 128-bit full floating-point precision that enables billions of color variations, and the company's Catalyst 3D acceleration software.

The users who will be most interested in the Radeon 9800 Pro are game players, and ATI has designed the VPU to provide an ...

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