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Diamond Stealth 32 VLB with ET4000/W32p. Hardware acceleration via dedicated BitBLT hardware and a hardware cursor sprite was introduced in the ET4000/W32. [3] The W32 offered improved local bus support along with further increased host interface performance, but by the time PCI Windows accelerators became commonplace, high host throughput was no longer a distinguishing feature.
The Diamond Stealth II S220, using the Rendition Verite V2100 2D/3D accelerator, was popular with enthusiasts for its excellent price/performance for both 2D and 3D gaming. A special BIOS patch was released by Diamond for the Stealth II S220 which brought its clock speed up to the same level as the high-end Verite V2200 chip, resulting in equal ...
Diamond's Stealth3D 2000 with ViRGE/325. With the successful launch of the Sony PlayStation home game-console, pressure was on the PC market to incorporate hardware that could compete in the area of realtime 3D graphics rendering, something that software-based host-CPU rendering could not do well on its own.
The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to bring it to light.
Diamond's Stealth II S220.V2100-based Rendition V2200 reference card (chip is unlabeled). Rendition's 2nd generation architecture consisted of the Vérité V2100 and V2200. The chips were refined versions of the V1000 technology, most notably offering a single-cycle pixel computation (the V1000 took more than a single clock cycle to calculate each pixel
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Diamond's Viper II Z200. During 1999, Diamond and S3 merged and the Savage 2000 GPU was the first product from the combined companies. The final graphics card was released late that year as the Diamond Viper II Z200. The GPU consisted of roughly 12 million transistors, approximately half the number of transistors of the NVIDIA GeForce 256 ...
The Rio 500 has a USB port that looks like the standard 5-pin mini-B type, however it is not compatible with modern USB mini-B cables. The USB1.1 spec was released in September 1998 and the 500 didn't go on sale until a year later, however the spec for mini-B cables and receptacles was not established until October 2000.