ATI rage

An AGP graphics card with a Rage-128 graphics processor

Rage is the name of ATI Technologies for their first 3D graphics chips.

history

ATI had only moderate success with these chips in the gaming graphics card market and was at times plagued by massive driver problems. The cards equipped with these chips were, however, widespread in the SOHO area , as they were available inexpensively and mostly had a very good analog signal quality. Chips from the Rage family, among others, were used as onboard graphics for server motherboards. a. Owing to the low demands on the power supply, it was still used frequently until 2007. In the meantime, however, they have been replaced by a pure 2D chip, the ES1000.

ATI used the name Rage for a variety of chips that were used on various graphics cards.

The Rage 128 Pro, released in April 1999, was already AFR-compatible , and two of the chips were used on the Rage Fury MAXX.

The chip originally planned as Rage 6 was released as the ATI Radeon 7000 and heralded a new generation.

Graphics chip models

ATI graphics card with 3D Rage Pro, PCI version with memory expansion to 8 MB

ATI graphics card with Rage128 GL

Desktop (chronological)

• 3D Rage (I)
• 3D Rage II, II +, II + DVD, IIc,
• 3D Rage Pro, Rage XL
• Rage 128, Rage 128 Pro

Notebook

based on Rage LT

• Rage Mobility M (4 MB RAM in the chip)
• Rage Mobility M1 (8 MB RAM in the chip)
• Rage Mobility P (up to 8 MB RAM external)

based on Rage 128

• Rage Mobility 128 (AGP-2X)
• Rage Mobility M4 (AGP-4X)

server

• Rage XL

Graphics card models

• Rage Magnum (Rage 128)
• Rage Fury MAXX (2x Rage 128 Pro, 2x 32 MB) (October 1999)
• Rage Fury Pro (Rage 128 Pro)
• Rage Fury (Rage 128)
• XPERT 128 (Rage 128)
• XPERT 2000 PRO (Rage 128 Pro, up to 32 MB)
• XPERT 2000 (Rage 128, up to 32 MB)
• XPERT 99 (Rage 128; 8 MB)
• XPERT 98 (Rage Pro)
• XPERT @ PLAY (Rage Pro)
• XPERT @ WORK (Rage Pro)
• XPERT LCD (Rage Pro)
• XPERT XL (Rage Pro)
• 3D Pro Turbo (Rage II)
• Xpression + PC2TV (Rage 3D)
• 3D Charger (Rage 3D)
• Xpression (Rage 3D)
• Rage Pro Turbo (AGP 2x)
• Rage Pro LT AGP 2x (onboard)
• Rage XL

Web links

• Information about the ATI-Rage 128 Pro on pc-erlebnis.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ AMD product page for the ATI ES1000 (via Internet archive) ( Memento from April 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )