The ATI Nexus 128 is a PCI video card that works in a standard 33 MHz PCI or Apple’s accelerated 66 MHz PCI slot found in the Blue & White Power Mac G3 and the Yikes! Power Mac G4.
Many articles mention poor 16-bit image quality, and 32-bit operation is nearly as fast. Multimedia components are compatible with Mac OS 8.x. Supports QuickTime 3.0 or higher, QuickDraw 3D 1.5.4 or higher.
ATI shipped several Mac compatible cards based on the Rage 128 chipset. These include the Orion, Nexus, and VR cards. 3D acceleration is not supported when set to 256 colors.
Details
- GPU: Rage 128 GL
- GPU speed: 100 MHz
- PCI bus speed/width: 33/66 MHz, 32 bits
- Video memory: 32 MB
- Memory speed: 166 MHz
- Memory bus: 128 bits
- Resolutions: 512 x 384, 640 x 480, 640 x 870, 800 x 600, 832 x 624, 1024 x 768, 1152 x 870, 1280 x 960, 1280 x 1024, 1600 x 1024, 1600 x 1200, 1792 x 1344, 1856 x 1392, 1920 x 1080, 1920 x 1200, 1920 x 1440
- Ports: VGA
- Dual monitor support: no
- Cooling fan: sometimes, but usually a heat sink
- Minimum OS: Mac OS 8.0
Online Resources
- ATI Announces Nexus 128…, PR Newswire, 1998.12.21.
- Nexus 128, ATI
- Drivers & Software, ATI
- ATI Nexus 128 User’s Guide (PDF), ATI
- ATI Drivers for Mac OS Classic, Mactar
Benchmarks
- Radeon AGP vs Rage128 Pro AGP, Mike Breeden, Accelerate Your Mac, 2000.10.05
- Rage 128 vs. Radeon AGP, Bare Feats, 2001.02.23. “Is AGP that much faster?” It depends….
- Mac 3D Graphics Card Performance Summary, Accelerate Your Mac, 1999.11.03. VT MP960 Compared to Voodoo3 3000/2000 PCI, ATI’s Rage128 Orion, and Formac’s Proformance 3.
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