Rendition Vérité
Vérité is a brand name of the former manufacturer Rendition for a range of 3D graphics chips.
Vérité V1000
Vérité V1000, which came on the market in 1996, was one of the first graphics chips based on a RISC processor in order to be able to work independently of the main processor. In doing so, Rendition relied on a principle that only years later slowly established itself in the entire market with GPUs .
Vérité V1000 had a number of 3D features and was equipped with 4 MB EDO RAM . In contrast to the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics , a 2D and video accelerator was also integrated so that no additional graphics card was required. All of this made the V1000 one of the first 3D accelerators to offer acceptable speed for the mass market. Id Software , the developers of Quake , said in a press release from Number Nine Visual Technology regarding a planned V1000 card from Number Nine (which never came out):
"We at id have been fans of the Vérité architecture since we first saw the spec, several months back." stated John Carmack , technical director of id Software, Inc., creators of the popular action game Doom . "Now that we have some experience with the chip, we're even more pleased with it; in fact, it's our clear favorite among 3D accelerators." In discussing the development of their next generation software title QUAKE (tm), John goes on to say "... Vérité will be the premier platform for Quake."
Vérité V2x00
The second generation of the Vérité architecture consisted of the Vérité V2100 and V2200. Both graphics chips were revised versions of V1000, which above all offered a significantly higher fill rate. The difference between the versions lay in the timing, so that the V2100 was a low-cost version and the V2200 was priced higher.