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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.
Rendition, Inc., was a maker of 3D computer graphics chipsets in the mid to late 1990s. They were known for products such as the Vérité 1000 and Vérité 2x00 and for being one of the first 3D chipset makers to directly work with Quake developer John Carmack to make a hardware-accelerated version of the game (vQuake).
S3 Graphics, Ltd. was an American computer graphics company. The company sold the Trio, ViRGE, Savage, and Chrome series of graphics processors. Struggling against competition from 3dfx Interactive, ATI and Nvidia, it merged with hardware manufacturer Diamond Multimedia in 1999.
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 .
Diamond FireGL 1000 Pro 3DLabs Permedia 2 4/8 MB AGP 2X 1996 Diamond FireGL 2000 3Dlabs GLINT 300SX + S3 86C968/86c868 8 MB VRAM + 8-12 MB DRAM PCI 1997 Diamond FireGL 3000 3Dlabs Glint 500TX + Glint Delta + ALG2564 8 MB VRAM + 8/16/32 MB PCI 1997 Diamond FireGL 4000 Mitsubishi 3Dpro/2MP + CL-GD5446 15 MB 3D RAM/ 4-16 MB CDRAM PCI Diamond
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The 3000 and 3500 models offers performance exceeding Voodoo2 SLI in certain environments. [6] At the same time 3dfx also released the budget-priced Voodoo Banshee , a combination 2D/3D card that combines a 2D accelerator with an overclocked but incomplete Voodoo2, missing one of the texture units.