ATI Radeon PCI Mac Edition

Physical Specs and Compatibility

The ATI Radeon PCI is a PCI video card that works in a standard 33 MHz or Apple's accelerated 66 MHz PCI slot. 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).

ATI note: Radeon Mac Edition PCI version may be incompatible with some legacy (older than 5 years) system/monitor configurations. On the Power Mac 8600 and 9600, the VGA port is inaccessible. On the Power Mac 7200 and 7500, a nut must be removed from the card before it will fit.

Details

GPU: Radeon R100
GPU speed: 166 MHz
PCI bus speed/width: 33/66 MHz, 32 bits
Video memory: 32 MB
Memory speed: 166 MHz
Memory bus: 256 bits
Resolutions: 640 x 480 to 1920 x 1440
Ports: DVI-I and VGA
Dual monitor support: no
Cooling fan: yes
Minimum OS: Mac OS 8.6

Online Resources

ATI Radeon Mac Edition, ATI
ATI Radeon PCI, Michael Eilers, Inside Mac Games, 2001.02.28.
ATI Radeon PCI, MacUser UK, 2001.05
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....

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