MS-8801 Trident
®
Blade 3D 9880
Graphics Accelerator
User’s Guide
Chapter 1
MS-8801 Trident
®
Blade 3D 9880 Graphics Accelerator
1. Overview
The MS-8801Trident
®
Blade 3D 9880 Graphics Accelerator
brings to the PC unparalleled price/performance 3D graphics,
combining advanced per pixel 3D setup and rendering with 2D
graphical user interface (GUI) acceleration. The Blade 3D 9880
THAMA
TM
(Trident Hardware Assisted MPEG-2 Architecture)
brings DVD playback to the multimedia PC. The MS-8801
uses high performance SGRAM.
2. Features
Chip List:
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Trident
®
Blade 3D 9880 : 2D & 3D accelerator processor.
General Features
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Fully integrated 64-bit VGA/2D/3D/Video Accelerator
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High resolution 1600x1200 85Hz with a 230MHz RAMDAC
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Support 8M SGRAM
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AGP 2x, Sideband Addressing and Execute Mode
2D Acceleration
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Hardware acceleration of Bitblt, Line Draw, Polygon/
Rectangle Fill, Bit Masking, Monochrome Expansion,
Panning/Scrolling, Scissoring, full ROP support and
hardware cursor (64x64x2)
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Game acceleration including support for Microsoft’s
DirectDraw: Double Buffering, Virtual Sprites, Transparent
Blit, Masked Blit and Context Chaining
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8/15/16/32-bit per pixel color format
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