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Graphics Card

The accelerated graphics card in the Power Macintosh G3 computer has the following features:

• 128-bit 2D/3D graphics and multimedia accelerator IC, the ATI 3D RAGE 128 GL
• 16 MB of synchronous dynamic RAM (SDRAM) soldered to the card (no video RAM expansion)
• hardware acceleration of 2D QuickDraw graphics and video to speed up scrolling text and graphics and screen redraw operations
• hardware acceleration of video for full screen, full motion, TV-quality playback of Cinepak and MPEG1 QuickTime movies
• connector for the DVD decode module supporting the playback of DVD video
• bilinear hardware interpolation and scaling
• accelerated 3D QuickDraw rendering up to six times that of software-only rendering
• real-time 3D shaded object manipulation, animation, and virtual world navigation
• 16-bit Z buffer for hidden texture surface removal
• six perspectively correct texture mapping functions
• alpha blending, transparency, and fog effects
• flat and Gouraud shading
• video textures and video lighting

The graphics acceleration features enhance the realism of 3D interactive application software and games.