EddyHawk's Info List
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Other HardWare
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-Award Modular BIOS
by: Award
year: 1984-2001
V4.20
V4.50PG [1995]
V4.51PG
V6.00PGN [12 Mar 2001]
-Phoenix BIOS
V4.0+ [1998]
support > 64Mb RAM
-ALG 2228
by: Avance Logic
type: gfx card
note: not support LFB
-Adlib
type: snd card
Necrobone: never designed for digital playback
-Buddy B-200 card
note: allow 2 user to use 1 pc concurrently
-FireBall
by: Quantum
type: hardisk
lct
10
9.5ms seek time
297 megabit/sec internal transfer rate
5,400 rpm
5.1 to 30 Gb
512kb buffer
Ultra ATA/66
CRC
Shock Protection System II
20
7,200? rpm
418kb? or 2Mb? buffer
ATA100?
-Caviar
by: Western Digital
type: hardisk
40Gb
7200rpm
PIO 4 / ATA 33/66/100
-GeForce (Graphic Force)
by: nVIDIA
type: video chipset + integrated 3D accelerator, or GPU (Graphic Processing Unit)
128bit memory interface
350Mhz RAMDAC
VESA VBE 3.0 support
1 or 256 or NV10
date: Sep 1999
0.22 micron
23m transistors
integrated T&L (Transform & Light) engine
DirectX V7 support
chip/mem clock: 120/166 Mhz
pixel rate: 480M/sec
4 parallel rendering pipelines
1st to support AGP4x + Fast Write
2
date: 2000
0.18 micron
less than 28.5m transistors
DirectX V7 support
DirectX Texture Compression, S3 Texture Compression
NSR (Nvidia Shader Rasterizer)
MX
2 pixel pipelines
slimmed version of normal GeForce
chip/mem clock: 175/166 Mhz
pixel/texel fill-rate: 350/700 M /sec
with TwinView: dual display support
MX200
64bit mem interface
the cheapest & slowest than GF2 MX & GF2 MX400 (reported even slower than GeForce256)
MX400
chip/mem clock: 200/183Mhz
Go
for notebook
GTS
chip/mem clock: 200/2x166 Mhz
pixel/texel fill-rate: 800/1600 M /sec
Pro
chip/mem clock: 200/2x200 Mhz
pixel/texel fill-rate: 800/1600 M / sec
Ultra
chip/mem clock: 250/2x230 Mhz
pixel/texel fill-rate: 1 / 2 G /sec
Ti(tanium)
chip/mem clock: 250/2x200 Mhz
3 or NV20
date: 2001
0.15 micron
57m transistors
4 pixel pipelines
64Mb DDR-SDRAM
chip/mem clock: 200/2x230 Mhz
nFiniteFX engine: DirectX V8 support:
programmable (Vertex & Pixel) Shader
Pixel Shader: enhanced NSR (Nvidia Shader Rasterizer)
Environment Mapped Bump Mapping
hardwired T&L
lightspeed mem architecture
four 32bit memory controller working interleaving instead
of single 128bit memory controller
Quincunx (hi-res &/ multi sampling Full Scene) Anti Aliasing
pixel fill-rate: 800Mb/sec
Titanium
uses titanium?
Ti200
chip/mem clock: 175/2x200 Mhz
pixel fill-rate: 700Mb/sec
Ti500
chip/mem clock: 240/2x250 Mhz
pixel fill-rate: 960Mb/sec
EdH: GeForce is nice name, but too bad it's followed by ugly names like Ultra, GTS etc
-Quadro
by: nVIDIA
2
MX
note: equal to GeForce 2 MX/GTS, but meant for workstation
-Rage
by: ATI
type: 3D gfx card (?)
Fury
MAXX
dual ATI128 Rage Pro chipset
pixel rate: 540M/sec
-Radeon
by: ATI
type: video card
date: July 2000
keyframe interpolation, 4-matrix skinning, environment bump mapping, 3D-texture, HyperZ
some DirectX V8 features
7500
GeForce2 rival
8500 or R200
0.15 micron
DirectX V8.1 support
SmartShader
6 input texel per pixel program
larger instruction set, 12 instructions per program
Smoothvision (FSAA)
Charisma Engine (T&L): 60m triangles/sec
aggresive speed against GeForce3
-Kyro
by: ST Microelectronic
type: video chipset
1 or? PowerVR 2
chip/mem clock: 115Mhz
2 or? PowerVR 3
0.18 micron
Tile Based Rendering
128bit mem interface
chip/mem clock: 175Mhz
3D Kyro-II
-Voodoo
by: 3Dfx
type: 3D acceleration only chipset
1st 3D acceleration chipset
I
50Mhz
II
90Mhz
3-4
5
Temporal Anti Aliasing
Banshee
Rush
-Savage
by: S3
type: video chipset
3
4
Pro
3D
2000
SuperSavage
-Vortex
by: Aureal
type: snd.chip, PCI
1
2
note: comprises A(ureal)3D V2.0: Interactive A3D, Virtual Surround Sound, Wavetracing
-Sound Blaster
by: Creative
1
2
Pro
Pro+
Pro16
Awe
Live!
Value OEM
Platinum
Audigy
Platinum [Aug? 2001]
Audigy audio processor
EAX Advanced HD: 4x stronger than EMU10K1
24bit multi-channel
100db SNR
SB1394 (FireWire) connector
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MISC
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nVIDIA bought 3Dfx
VIA bought Cyrix
Award merged with Phoenix