CHAPTER 5
VGA DRIVER
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Chapter 5
ATI
®
3D RAGE PRO/ATI
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3D RAGE IIC VGA DRIVER
1. Overview
The ATI
®
3D RAGE PRO/ATI
®
3D RAGE IIC is a highly integrated graphics
controllers. Incorporated within this single chips are the 2D, 3D, and video
accelerators, palette DAC, and dual-clock synthesizer. This multi-function
integrated controller delivers TV-quality scaled video optimized for MPEG
playback, industry-leading mach64 2D performance.
1.1 ATI
®
RAGE PRO Feature
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Support 2M or 4M SGRAM for 100MHz.
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Support AGP 2X BUS Up to 133MHz.
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Complete 3D primitive support: points, lines, triangles, strips, and
quadrilaterals.
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4KOn-chip Texture Cache.
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16-bit Z buffer.
1.2 ATI
®
RAGE II C Feature
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Support 2M or 4M SGRAM for 83MHz.
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Support AGP 1X BUS Up to 66MHz.
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Complete 3D primitive support: points, lines, triangles, lists, strips,
and quadrilaterals.
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Hidden surface removal using 16-bit Z-buffering.
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Support for single pass bi-and tri-linear texture filtering.