The MEGA 3D enters the world of Hardware 3D with the fastest chipset on the market. Using RAMBUS Technology DRAM this allows a bandwidth of up to 600Mbytes per second.
Chipset: | Cirrus 5464 Laguna 3D |
Specifications: | |
Dram interface | 64-bit |
Bus Type | PCI 2.1-compliant bus master |
Memory | RAMBUS DRAM |
Architecture | Single channel device with bandwidth up to 600 Mbytes per second Frame buffer to 8 Mbytes in increment of 1 Mbyte |
Memory Capability | 2MB / 4 MB on board |
3D Standard Compliance | Open GL, Microsoft Direct 3D |
Hardware 3D Acceleration | Perspective texture mapping, Bilinear/trilinear filtering, Mip mapping, Texture decompression, Mono rasterization, Stipple, Polygon16-bit Z-buffer, Gouraud shading, (Polygon, line, and point) drawing, (Lit, copy, decal, and blend) textures, alpha blending, fog, transparency, and hardware page flipping |
Video playback | Single-pass X,Y interpolated scaling Hardware occlusion of three video windows YUV-to-RGB conversion Color and chroma key |
High Performance | Three-oprand BitBLT |
GUI Accelerator | Color expansion for 8-, 16- 24-, and 32-bpp modes Stretch BLT |
DDC support | VESA DDC level 2B-compliant monitor signaling |
Power Management | Green PC support with VSEA[S1]( DPMS and system power down |
BIOS Support | Plug-and-Play support DPMS and DDC2B support in ROM 100 % IBM VGA compatible BIOS VESA BIOS Extension 2.0 support |
Software Drivers | Windows 3.x/ 95, Windows NT 3.5x/4.0, OS/2, AutoCAD v11, v12, v13, AutoShade with RendermanTM v2.0, 3D Studio TM v1, v2, MicroStation v5.x. DirectDraw, Microsoft Direct3D driver CompCore for software MPEG. |
Resolution / Color | Non-Interlaced 1600x1280 x 256, 1280x1024 x 64K, 1024x768 x 16M, 800x600 x 16M, 640x480 x 16M |
Refresh Rate | Up to 85Hz |
Performance | 63 fps in Direct 3D's Tunnel test on Pentium 133 MHz or faster systems |
System Requirement | Pentium-90, 16MB, 20MB hard disk space, 4X CD-ROM drive |
DOS Utilities | Clmode (for Video mode configuration) |
TSRFont (for 8x14 VGA BIOS font) | |
Games included | (optional) |
Microsoft Games Sampler 2 for Windows 95 The 3DO Company - Captain QuazarTM, DecathlonTM Berkeley Systems - You Don't Know JackTM Blizzard Entertainment - DiabloTM DreamWorks Interactive - The NeverhoodTM Electronic Arts - Road RashTM Epic MegaGames, Inc. - Fire FlightTM Inscape - (Hold Onto Your) Nuts! TM, Drowned GodTM, Ravage D.C.X. TM Looking Glass Technologies, Inc. - Flight UnlimitedTM Microsoft - HellbenderTM, Monster Truck MadnessTM Strategic Simulations Incorporated - War Wind Tsunami - Free EnterpriseTM Viacom New Media - DeathDromeTM |