ATI 3D Xpression+
The 3D Xpression Plus arrived in December 1996, just two months after the 3D Xpression. It was based around ATI's then-new Rage II chipset.
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Released | December 1996 |
| Bus | PCI | |
| Chipset | ATi 3DRage II | |
| Standards | VGA and SVGA | |
| Memory | 4 MB EDO | |
| Ports | 15-pin DSUB (RGB analogue) | |
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| Price | At launch: $200 (4MB) | |
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This added support for 16-bit hardware Z-buffer and a lot more Direct3D features including support for 4-bit and 8-bit compressed textures, bilinear and trilinear filtering, MIP mapping, alpha-blended transparency, and fog.
Cards with the original Rage II chip were usually named 3D Xpression+. The GPU operated at a frequency of 60 MHz providing a theoretical performance of 60 MPixel/s pixel rate and 60 MTexel/s texture rate. Memory ran at 83 MHz with bandwidth of approximately 664 MB/s.
Board Revisions
Competition
3D Xpression+ competed with the Diamond Stealth 3D 2000XL and the Intergraph Reactor.
In the Media
According to a short review in PC Magazine in December 1996, the Xpression+ finished squarely in the middle of the pack on their WinMark 97, Winstone 97, and DirectDraw tests - roughly 30 percent slower than the top scorer, Diamond's Stealth 3D 2000XL. While its visual quality under Direct3D was good, performance was again lackluster: the Xpression+ was significantly slower than the roundup's top performer, Intergraph's Reactor, on every test.
Setting it Up
There is no hardware configuration required for the 3D Xpression+.
Downloads
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