ATI 3D Rage
The 3D Rage was the first '3D accelerator' graphics card by ATi, launched in April 1996.
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Released | April 1996 |
| Bus | PCI | |
| Chipset | ATi mach64GT | |
| Standards | VGA and SVGA | |
| Memory | 2 MB EDO RAM (32-bit) | |
| Ports | 15-pin DSUB (RGB analogue) | |
| Part # | 109-34000-00 | |
| FCC ID | EXM340 | |
| Price | At launch: $229 | |
| See Also |
Apart from being on video cards, the 3D Rage graphics accelerator was also integrated into numerous desktop PC motherboards in late 1996/early 1997, including:
- Acer Aspire Personal Solution and Ultimate Solution (2 MB VRAM)
- IBM Aptiva C55 and S78 (2 MB EDO)
- NEC Ready 9624 and 9628 (2 MB EDO)
- Sony PCV-90 (2 MB EDO)
The mach64GT chipset ran at a frequency of 44 MHz, providing a theoretical throughput is 44 MPixel/s pixel rate, and 44 MTexel/s texture rate. The memory ran at 57 MHz offering bandwidth up to approximately 456 MB/s. It also supported Microsoft DirectX 5.0 for gaming.
Board Revisions
Competition
This card suffered from slow EDO RAM compared to its competitor, the S3 ViRGE, which was first to the 3D market - the Rage only had a 32-bit memory path compared to the ViRGE's 64-bit wide path. 3D Rage also competed with the Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 and Matrox Millennium.
In the Media
Setting it Up
There is no hardware configuration required for the 3D Rage.
Downloads
Operation Manual Get in touch if you can provide this missing item! |
Original Utility Disk Get in touch if you can provide this missing item! |
VGA BIOS ROM Get in touch if you can provide this missing item! |
Mach64 DOS/Win3.1/OS2 Disks ATI Mach64 DOS/Win 3.1x/OS2 disks |
Mach64 Windows 95 Driver ATI Mach64 Win95 1/1 |
Mach64 Windows 95 Driver ATI Mach64 Win95 disks
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Mach64 Windows NT 3.51 Driver Windows NT 3.51 drivers for Mach64 cards |
Mach64 MPEG/Video Player ATI Mach64 v2.22 MPEG/Video Player 1/1 |
Mach64 DirectDraw ATI Mach64 v2.22 DirectDraw for Win 1/1 |
Mach64 VESA Driver ATI-provided 64vbe - similar to UniVBE- to provide VESA VBE compliance for some legacy cards like Mach 64 and Rage 128. This is the latest version v2.21. |
Mach64 / Rage II Driver CD ATI Mach64 drivers for Windows 3.1x, OS/2, Windows 95, NT 3.5/3.51/4.0. Also includes VESA driver, MPEG software for Win95, AutoCAD/AutoDesk 3D Studio and AutoShade drivers. |
