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Appendix E Compaq/NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS AGP Graphics Card
Compaq Personal Computers
Original - November 2000
E-2
E.2 FUNCTIONAL
DESCRIPTION
The NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS-SD Graphics Card provides high performance 2D and 3D display
imaging. The card’s AGP design provides an economical approach to 3D processing by off-
loading 3D effects such as texturing, z-buffering and alpha blending to the system memory while
32 megabytes of on-board SDRAM stores the main display image.
Figure E-2.
NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS Graphics Card Block diagram
The NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS Graphics Card includes the following features:
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16-MB SDRAM frame buffer using 128-bit 166-MHz access
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AGP 4X transfers with sideband addressing
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2D drawing engine with:
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128-bit BitBLTs, rectangle/polygon fills, line draws
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Hardware cursor
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8-/16-/32-bpp mode acceleration
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3D accelerator with:
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Hardware transform and lighting
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Single-pass dual textures
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4 rendering pipelines
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Anistropic filtering
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8-bit stencil buffer
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Specular lighting diffuse shading
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16-/24-bit Z-buffering
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350-MHz RAMDAC
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VESA compliancy:
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VIP 1.1 connector
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DDC2B monitor support
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DPMS, EPA Energy Star, and ACPI-compliant power management
BIOS
ROM
HSync
128-bit
166-MHz
Data Bus
Analog
Monitor
Connector
RGB
NVIDIA N15 Graphics Controller
3D Array
Engine
Video
Scalar
350-MHz
RAM
DAC
CRT
Controller
Memory
I/F
AGP
Bus
Card
Edge
Connector
VSync
2D/VGA
Engine
32 MB
SDRAM
Frame Buffer
AGP 4X
I/F