ATI Rage 128 vs. Rage 128 Pro

[zen.state]

I just purchased a Sawtooth G4 500 and it has a Rage 128 Pro. I have never seen the word "Pro" at the end of rage 128. I googled and found nothing..

Could anyone please explain what the difference is?

Thanks.

 

[Aliquis]

I too have a 128 Rage Pro. It's in a Snake-bite Dual 500 G4. What size video memory does yours have?

 

[alex_ant]

http://www.ati.com/products/faqs/rage128profaq.html

 

[zen.state]

I too have a 128 Rage Pro. It's in a Snake-bite Dual 500 G4. What size video memory does yours have?

16MB

 

[zen.state]

http://www.ati.com/products/faqs/rage128profaq.html

thanks

 

[Aliquis]

The link seemed to only talk about the Rage Fury, etc. Not the plain Rage 128 and 128 Pro.

Any info?

 

[doucy2]

there cna be that much of a difference because both of the cards suck

i have never heard of the difference.

interesting question you have brought up.

 

[Makosuke]

Put simply, the Rage 128 Pro was a somewhat improved version of the Rage 128. Since you must've missed the relevant answer on that page, here's from ATI:

RAGE 128 PRO technology includes all features of the original RAGE 128 chip as well many new "step-up features" above and beyond that of the RAGE 128.

New step up features of the RAGE 128 PRO graphics boards over the original RAGE 128 graphics boards (RAGE FURY, Xpert 128, and Xpert 2000) can be grouped into 3 sections as follows:

* Increased visual quality
* Increased game frame rate performance
* Added video functionality


The step up features are accomplished through the addition of the following enhancements to our product:

* Integrated TMDS transmitter to enable flat panel displays
* Increased triangle set up engine from 4M triangles/sec to 8M triangles/sec for more bandwidth to increase CPU/graphics board efficiency
* Full AGP 4X bus compliance with AGP 2X backward compatibility
* Video capture capability as well as TV-out (RAGE FURY PRO 32MB only)