ATI Radeon AGP Mac Edition
The ATI Radeon AGP is an AGP 2x card. It was the standard video card on the dual 1.0 and 1.25 GHz Mirror Drive Door Power Mac G4, the FireWire 800 Power Mac G4, and 1.25 GHz Mirror Drive Door Power Mac G4 (June 2005).
Details
- GPU speed: 166 MHz
- Video memory: 32 MB
- Memory speed: 166 MHz
- Memory bus: 256 bits
- Resolutions: 640 x 480 to 1920 x 1440
- Ports: ADC and VGA on Apple version, DVI-I and VGA on ATI version
- Dual monitor support: no
- Cooling fan: not on Apple version, included on ATI version
- Minimum OS: Mac OS 9.0
- Also compatible with: Sawtooth, Gigabit Ethernet, Digital Audio
Online Resources
- ATI Radeon Mac Edition, ATI
- ATI's Retail Radeon AGP Graphics Card, Mike Breeden, Accelerate Your Mac, 2000.10.16
- ATI Radeon AGP, Michael Eilers, Inside Mac Games, 2000.10.18.
- ATI Radeon Mac Edition, MacUser UK, 2000.12
- Radeon Mac Edition, Peter Molfese and Joel Hruska, Van's Hardware, 2002.02.01
Benchmarks
- The ATI Radeon Is the Newest Graphics Accelerator for the Mac. But Is It the Fastest?, Bare Feats, 2000.10.16. Radeon AGP vs. Voodoo5, ProFormance 3 Plus (PCI), and Rage 128 Pro AGP.
- Radeon AGP vs Rage128 Pro AGP, Mike Breeden, Accelerate Your Mac, 2000.10.05
- Radeon PCI vs. Radeon AGP, Bare Feats, 2001.02.23. "Is AGP that much faster?" It depends....