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.

Power Mac G4/G5 & PC Support In The Same Card
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.

Ultra-High Resolution Display Support
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.

The Ultimate Performance Upgrade
With an incredible 256MB of high-speed video memory, 128-bit wide memory bandwidth and superior graphics processing technology that includes ATI’s SmartShader™ 2.0 and HyperZ™ III, the Radeon 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition is the ideal and affordable upgrade for almost any PowerMac or AGP-based Windows PC. This newest card features superior color precision, enhanced 3D performance and future-ready 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 PRO PC & Mac Edition also offers unparalleled DirectX® 9.0 and OpenGL® support to ensure that current and upcoming games and applications look and play brilliantly, especially in high-definition.

Stability and Support
The Radeon 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition is managed by feature-rich display driver software ATI Displays for MAC or ATI’s award-winning Catalyst™ software for PCs, resulting in exceptional visual quality, performance and stability. All ATI products are backed by ATI Customer Care technical support.

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Specifications

3D Graphics Features

• Four parallel rendering pipelines process up to 1.6 billion pixels per second pixel fill rate
• Two parallel geometry engines process up to 200 million vertices per second transform rate
• 8.6 GB/Sec memory bandwidth
• High precision 10-bit per channel frame buffer support

SmartShader™ 2.0

• Full support for OpenGL® 2.0 programmable pixel and vertex shaders in hardware
• 2.0 Pixel Shaders support up to 16 textures per rendering pass
• 2.0 Vertex Shaders support vertex programs up to 1024 instructions with flow control
• New 128-bit per pixel floating point color formats
• Shadow volume rendering acceleration

SmoothVision™ 2.1

• State-of-the-art full-scene anti-aliasing
  • New technology processes up to 15.6 billion anti-aliased samples per second for unprecedented performance
  • Supports 2x, 4x, and 6x modes with programmable sample patterns
• Advanced anisotropic filtering
  • Supports up to 16 bilinear samples (in performance mode) or trilinear samples (in quality mode) per pixel
  • Bandwidth-saving algorithm enables this feature with minimal performance cost

HypeZ™ III

• Hierarchical Z-Buffer and Early Z Test reduce overdraw by detecting and discarding hidden pixels
• Lossless Z-Buffer Compression and Fast Z-Buffer Clear reduce memory bandwidth consumption by over 50%

Video Features

• DVD and QuickTime™ Acceleration
• Seamless integration of programmable pixel shaders with video data
• Integrated MPEG-2 decode
• Hardware accelerated iDCT, motion compensation, and color space conversion
• Top quality DVD and DTV/HDTV decode with low CPU overhead

Display Features

• Dual Digital display controllers
• Drive any combination of 2 Digital or analog displays with independent resolutions and refresh rates
• Dual integrated 10-bit per channel palette DACs operating at up to 400MHz
• Dual 165MHz TMDS transmitters (DVI 1.0 compliant)
• DVI-I connectors

General Features

• High performance quad-channel DDR memory interface with 256MB total memory
• Optimized for Mac® OS X and Power PC ALTIVEC processor instructions

Advance Dual Display Support

• Drive two Digital or Analog displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates
• VersaVision™ provides hardware accelerated display rotation and scaling
• Dual-Link DVI for high-resolution digital displays
• Support for HDTV output over DVI

Macintosh System Requirements

• Power Mac® G4 MDD or later*, Power Macintosh G5(not compatible with Power Mac G5 Dual Core systems or later)
• AGP* 4x or 8x graphics slot available on the motherboard
• 300-Watt power supply or greater recommended
• Compatible with Mac® OS X 10.3.6 and later

* Compatible with AGP 8X and 4X Slot equipped systems including:
PowerMac G4 Mirrored Drive Door
PowerMac G4 FireWire 800
PowerMac G5 (All models up to "Dual Core")

ATI has this compatiblity note on their website (not linked, ATI's support site is in a dynamic frame and requires logging in):

737-21888: Radeon 9600 PRO PC & MAC Edition list of un-supported system configurations
The information in this article applies to the following configurations:
Radeon® 9600 PRO PC & MAC Edition
"Quicksilver" Power Mac G4 model
"Quicksilver 2002" Power Mac G4 model
"Digital Audio" Power Mac G4 model
The Radeon 9600 Mac & PC Edition is not compatible with the "Quicksilver", "Quicksilver 2002" or the "Digital Audio" PowerMac G4. If a Radeon 9600 Mac & PC Edition board is installed in one of these systems the result is a blank display.

PC System Requirements:

• AMD/Intel Windows Systems with 4X or 8X AGP graphics slot available on the motherboard
• 300-Watt power supply or greater recommended
• Windows® XP (Home or Pro)
• Windows® 2000* with Service Pack 1 (or later).

*Extended desktop mode is not supported with Windows 2000. Windows users requiring dual independent displays should use Windows XP to enable this feature.

Graphics Processor

• Radeon® 9600 PRO Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

Memory Configuration

• 256 MB of DDR memory

Warranty

• 1-year limited warranty

Display Support

• Dual-link DVI
• Dual DVI ports for digital flat panel*
• CRT monitor**
• TV out ***
• Built-in VersaVision(TM) for portrait displays

* ADC support with optional DVI to ADC adapter
** With DVI to VGA adapter (one included)
*** TV Out support with optional DVI

Analog Monitor Display Modes
Resolutions and maximum refresh rates (Hz) in thousands and millions of color settings

Actual available display modes are dependent upon monitor selection.
*1920 x 1200 flat panel resolution available through use of reduced blanking interval.

Digital Flat Panel Maximum Resolution*

 *Note: The resolutions listed for digital flat panel monitors are the MAXIMUM display resolutions. Digital displays will list alternative resolutions, in the specifications of your monitor, not the video card. They may be different than are listed for the VGA resolutions in the previous section.