ATI 100-435060 Radeon 9600 Pro Pc and Mac Edition 256MB AGP Video Card

The first high-end graphics card to offer support both Power Mac G4/G5 and PC support, the Radeon 9600 is the perfect upgrade for design professionals and gamers who demand exceptional graphics performance. The Radeon 9600 delivers stunning 3D capabilities at an incredible price for both Mac OS X and Windows XP users with AGP-based systems. Providing an extremely smooth and responsive gaming experience, this card allows players to play even the most demanding game titles at some of their highest possible settings. Not just for gaming, this graphics card also lets you expand your creative range with more speed and efficiency while experiencing faster rendering of visual effects at higher resolutions, and an increase in productivity with quicker switching between screens, as well as improved web graphics and monitor performance.

This graphics card is equipped with workstation-class dual digital display connections capable of powering a combination of digital flat panel or analog displays simultaneously, with independent resolutions and refresh rates. While able to power the market latest digital flat-panel monitors and dual-link, DVI ultra high-resolution flat panel monitors -- such as a 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display with 2560 x 1600 resolution -- you can also connect standard CRT monitors via adapters. (One DVI-to-VGA adapter is included.) Equipped with ATI's breakthrough dual-link DVI output and support, the Radeon 9600 Pro offers Power Mac and PC users the output capability and performance needed to maximize their design and gaming experiences.

With an incredible 256 megabytes of high-speed video memory, 128-bit wide memory bandwidth, and unparalleled DirectX 9.0 and OpenGL support to ensure that current and upcoming games and applications look and play brilliantly, especially in high-definition, the Radeon 9600 features superior color precision, enhanced 3D performance, and compatibility to support the latest special effects in games and graphics-intense software applications, such as Apple Motion, Mac OS X Tiger Core Image, Core Video and Quartz Extreme.

The Radeon 9600 also features four parallel rendering pipelines that process up to 1.6 billion pixels per second pixel fill rate, high-performance quad-channel DDR memory interface with 256 MB total memory, seamless integration of programmable pixel shaders with video data, and hardware accelerated iDCT, motion compensation, and color space conversion. This graphics card includes SmartShader 2.0, which has 1,024 instructions with flow control and 16 textures per rendering pass, shadow volume rendering acceleration, and 128-bit per-pixel floating point color formats. The X800 XT also features SmoothVision 2.1 with state-of-the-art, full-scene anti-aliasing, and advanced anisotropic filtering. It also includes loss-less Z-Buffer Compression and Fast Z-Buffer Clear that reduce memory bandwidth consumption by over 50-percent.

The ATi Radeon 9600 Pro PC and Mac Edition requires a Power Mac G4/G5 or PC, an available AGP graphics slot compatible with AGP 8x and 4x systems, and a 300-watt power supply or greater (recommended). This unit supports Mac OS X 10.3.6 or later, and Windows XP or Windows 2000 with Service Pack 1 or later. The 9600 Pro also comes with ATI's hassle-free, manufacturer's three-year limited warranty.

What's in the Box
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro PC and Mac Edition 256MB Graphics Card, DVI-to-VGA adapter, Installation and Setup Guide, and an Installation CD.

Product Description
Maximize your creative potential and gaming experiences with ATI's Radeon 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition, the first hybrid 256 MB, ultra-high resolution graphics card for both Power Mac and PC users.The Radeon 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition is a perfect upgrade for design professionals and gamers who demand exceptional graphics performance. The Radeon 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition delivers stunning 3D capabilities at an incredible price for both Mac OS X and Windows XP users with AGP-based systems.The Radeon 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition provides the most up-to-date display support, powering the market's latest, digital flat panel monitors and dual-link DVI ultra high-resolution flat panel monitors, including Apple's 30-inch Cinema HD Display (2560 X 1600 resolution). Equipped with ATI's breakthrough dual-link DVI output and support, the Radeon 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition offers Power Mac and PC users the output capability and performance needed to maximize their design and gaming experiences.