Radeon 9800 PRO Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
ATI started Radeon 9800 PRO Mac Edition sales 4 March 2004. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Rage 9 architecture and made with 150 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 128 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.34 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 21.63 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP Pro 8x interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 60 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon 9800 PRO Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Rage 9 (2003−2006) | |
| GPU code name | R360 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 4 March 2004 (21 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon 9800 PRO Mac Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon 9800 PRO Mac Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 378 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Number of transistors | 117 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 150 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 60 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 3.024 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 8 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon 9800 PRO Mac Edition and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | AGP Pro 8x | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon 9800 PRO Mac Edition: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | DDR | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 128 MB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 338 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 21.63 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon 9800 PRO Mac Edition. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI |
API and SDK compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon 9800 PRO Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 9.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.0 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 5090 D) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
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Recommended processors
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