ATI Technologies RADEON 9800 PRO User manual

RADEON™9800 PRO MAC

EDITION

User’s Guide

P/N: 137-40566-10

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Table of Contents

Disclaimer.............................................................................i

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

What You'll Need......................................................................................... 2

Related Documentation............................................................................... 3

Multimedia Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Viewing 3D Graphics................................................................................... 5

ATI Displays Control Panel........................................................................ 6

Using Mac2TV™ Video Out....................................................................... 8

Enabling Mac2TV...................................................................................... 10

Set Up Tab............................................................................................ 10

Optimizing Mac2TV.................................................................................. 11

Controls Tab ......................................................................................... 11

Ratio/Size Tab ...................................................................................... 12

ATI Displays Preferences.......................................................................... 14

ADVANCED DISPLAY OPTIONS......................................................... 15

VERSAVISION™ Tab ........................................................................ 15

Display Control Tab ............................................................................. 16

Advanced DFP Tab .............................................................................. 17

ATI HELP .................................................................................................. 18

Using DVD and QuickTime® Playback .................................................. 18

Using Digital Flat Panel (DVI) ................................................................. 19

Video Mode Table...................................................................................... 21

Supported Modes.................................................................................. 21

Digital Flat Panel ................................................................................. 22

Specifications.............................................................................................. 23

System Requirements ........................................................................... 23

Operating System ................................................................................. 23

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Introduction

The RADEON 9800 PRO MAC EDITION represents the next

generation in 3D and video acceleration for your Power

Macintosh®computer. It includes flexible dual-display support

for multiple combinations of CRT and Digital Flat Panel

monitors. Your new graphics accelerator provides:

• Flexible dual-display support enabling many combinations

utilizing VGA, and DVI connectors for analog and digital

displays.

• OpenGL®accelerator providing superior 3D rendering

performance and advanced imaging and filtering

techniques.

• Industry leading DVD acceleration for High Bitrate, low

CPU usage playback, of the latest movies at any resolution.

•QuickTime

®playback accelerator for full screen, full

motion, DVD quality video.

• TV-Out support via S-Video connector.

What You'll Need

The RADEON 9800 PRO MAC EDITION runs with the

following minimum system requirements:

• Any Power Macintosh®computer with an AGP 4x/2x

expansion slot.

• Mac OS X version 10.2.5 or higher.

• VGA-style monitor (see note below),DVI style digital flat

panel, Apple®ADC style digital flat panel (using a third

party powered adapter) or Apple®multi-frequency

monitor.

•QuickTime

®6 or higher.

• Minimum 128MB of system memory required for

Mac OS X version 10.x.

Connecting a second VGA monitor requires a DVI-to-VGA

adapter (included) to connect to the RADEON 9800 PRO MAC

EDITION graphics accelerator.

Future references to Mac OS X in this manual are intended to

be generic and inclusive of their respective versions of the

Macintosh®operating systems.

Related Documentation

The README file summarizes the latest product revisions.

Click the README icon on the installation disk to open this

file.

Help is available by clicking on the button in the ATI

Displays control panel or through the Apple®Help Center .

You can browse through the Help or search for a specific topic.

Multimedia Features

Your RADEON 9800 PRO MAC EDITION turns your Mac

computer into a 3D and 2D graphics powerhouse. You can use

your new graphics accelerator card to:

• Enjoy true-color 32-bit 2D or 3D graphics up to 2048 x

1536.

• Watch full screen, full motion, DVD quality video using

the Apple®DVD Player or QuickTime®playback

acceleration.

• Output your Mac’s display to digital flat panels and digital

projectors.

• Output your Mac’s display to a TV.

The following information describes these features in more

detail and suggests ways you can optimize your machine to get

the most out of your new card.

Viewing 3D Graphics

RADEON 9800 PRO MAC EDITION’s 3D Acceleration

features supports the following advanced 3D graphics

capabilities:

• 8 Pipeline architecture.

• 256 bit memory interface.

• 4 parallel vertex pipelines.

• 128 bit floating point shader pipelines.

• 350 million triangles per second transform rate.

• Single Pass multi-texturing for up to 16 textures.

• Full Scene Antialiasing (gamma corrected, up to 6x, Super-

Sampling or Multi-Sampling).

• Bilinear, Trilinear, and 16x Anisotropic filtering.

• Shadow acceleration.

In addition, the RADEON 9800 PRO MAC EDITION brings

new and exciting graphics technologies to the Macintosh®

platform:

SMOOTHVISION™is an anti-aliasing solution that raises the

bar for image quality using programmable multi-sampling

methods to post-process graphics before they are displayed.

SMARTSHADER™is a new technology which revolutionizes

the graphics pipeline by making both the geometry processing

and pixel processing stages more programmable than ever

before. Developers can easily create amazing new graphics

effects while maintaining a high level of performance.

HYPER Z™makes Z-buffer bandwidth usage more efficient by

decreasing the amount of information sent to the frame buffer.

RADEON 9800 PRO MAC EDITION only displays 3D

graphics in thousands and millions of colors. When you set your

display to 256 colors, this will affect Finder, OpenGL, Quartz

Extreme, and QuickTime®acceleration.

ATI Displays Control Panel

The ATI Displays control panel provides access to the advanced

features that RADEON 9800 PRO MAC EDITION has to offer.

To open the ATI Displays control panel using Mac OS X:

1 Open the Apple®System Preferences.

2Click

1 Click the Hard Disk icon.

2ClickApplications folder.

3ClickUtilities folder.

4ClickATI Utilities folder.

5 Double-click ATI Displays.

For detailed instructions on how to set up and use these features,

please refer to ATI Help, which can be accessed through the ATI

Displays control panel.

Display Info dialog shows the current display settings of the

specific monitor ATI Displays is running on.

Detect Displays button detects all connected displays. This

feature is useful when a second VGA monitor is connected to

your graphics adaptor. Detect Display removes the need to

restart your computer.

Note: Your display will momentarily go blank while the

displays are being detected.

The Profile dialog presents information on the specific

RADEON graphics card and video driver installed in your

computer. Even if the ATI Displays cannot identify your ATI

product it will still provide display configuration, driver version

and other related information. A warning dialog will display if

no ATI product is installed in your computer.

The Support dialog provides an internet link to specific ATI

Technologies’ web pages such as product information, warranty

registration, and FAQs.

Click Create Apple®System Profiler Report button to

generate a detailed report of the computer’s installed hardware

and software.

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