PCI Multimedia Accelerators

February 1996 / What's New / PCI Multimedia Accelerators

Two PCI-based boards are built around new multimedia accelerator chips from SGS Thomson and Nvidia. Both boards combine GUI acceleration, 3-D rendering, video acceleration, audio processing, and resolution rates from 640 by 480 with 16.7 million colors to 1600 by 1200 with 256 colors. The Proview GD400 ($299) , based on the Thomson chip, comes with 1 MB of EDO RAM. The Proview GD500 ($439), based on the Nvidia chip, comes with 2 MB of VRAM, upgradable to 4 MB.
Contact:  Leadtek Research, Inc., Fremont, CA

Phone:    (510) 490-8076.

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