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Re: Ati Mach?? cards



On Tue, 29 Aug 1995, Y.M. wrote:

> I need some info about the Mach64 series; (ATI's giving me plain 
> brochures with no specs). The top graphics card is the Graphics Pro 
> Turbo, that comes with (upgradable) 2MBs of VRAM. I've been told that 
..
> implies that it is optimized for use with Windows, does it make it bad 
> for non-GUI applications or other (and better) GUIs? Why does Marc think 
the way I see it, the ATI are not fully supported in Xfree, and none of 
their acceleration features are used there either. after doing some 
asking, I ordered myself the Matrox milleneum, which is not supported by 
Xfree, but IS supported by accelerated X (a commercial packedge)

it is MUCH better than the ATI ProTurbo, and a little cheaper (in Israel, 
anyway). got more WinMarks, higher on PC-Bench, ZD labs and others, and 
has features like onboard rescaling, Guerard (spl?) 3D rendering, Mpeg 
decompression (In hardware!) and more, and also a wider range of scan 
FREQs. also, it uses the new dual access WRAM technology... I think it 
left ATI in the dust (at least the papers say), but I didn't do any tests 
myself to compare yet(nor will be able to, anytime soon.)


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