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Sharky Extreme : November 21, 2008





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Sporting enhanced features as well as enhanced speed, the Rage128GL will be the foundational part in several new ATi video products throughout 1999, and possibly beyond. The initial ATi product that the new chip will be equipped on is the Rage Fury 32MB AGP video accelerator. The Rage Fury is ATi's new high-end solution for those who want the best of all worlds: 2D/3D speed, hardware DVD support, 32MB of SDRAM, and TV-Out.

The way the Rage Fury provides all of this technological bliss isn't a mystery, and is listed in the card's specs below:

Graphics Controller
· ATI RAGE 128GL, a high performance 128-bit graphics accelerator with superior 2D, 3D, and video support

Operating Systems Support
· Windows 98
· Windows 95
· Windows NT 4.0

Monitor Support
· CRT Monitor: 15 pin VGA connector
· TV: S-Video and Composite

AMC Channel
· AMC 2.0 compliant
· Ready for ATI-TV and ATI-TV Wonder, ATI's intelligent TV tuner and video capture option

Display Support
· Register compatible with VGA
· BIOS compatible with VESA for super VGA
· DDC1/2b/2b+ monitor support
· VESA Display Power Management support
· Separate horiz & vert sync at TTL levels

Memory Configuration
· 32MB

TV-Out
· Windows 98, Windows 95
· NTSC output (PAL versions available)
· Composite, S-Video connectors

3D Acceleration Features
· OpenGL ICD for NT 4.0 & Windows 98/95
· DirectX 5.0, DirectX 6.0, Direct3D, DirectDraw
· Triangle Setup Engine
· Texture Cache
· Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering
· Line & Edge Anti-aliasing
· Texture Compositing
· Texture Decompression
· Specular Highlights
· Perspectively Correct Texture Mapping
· Mip-Mapping
· Z-buffering and Double-buffering
· Bump Mapping
· Fog effects, texture lighting, video textures, reflections, shadows, spotlights, LOD biasing and texture morphing

Warranty
· 5-year limited warranty

2D Mode Support
Monitor Resolution 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1152 x 864 1280 x 1024 1600 x 1200 1920 x 1200
256 Colors 200 200 180 160 125 85 76
65K Colors 200 200 180 160 125 85 76
16.7M Colors (32bpp) 200 200 180 160 125 85 76

Maximum 3D Resolutions
· 65K colors 1920x1440
· 16.7M colors (32bpp) 1920x1200

Footnote: Maximum 3D resolutions and colors supported with specified memory with double buffered setting, and 32 bit Z.

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