Gainward Dragon 2000

Technical details
Name: Dragon 2000
Company: Gainward
Chipset: Macronix MX86251FC / 3Dfx SST-96 FBIjr, TREX 50 MHz / Chrontel CH7002D-V
Bus: PCI
RAM: 4 MB EDO DRAM 35 ns 128 bit 50 MHz / 2 MB Macronix
DAC: integrated at 160 MHz 24 bit
Connectors: VGA, TV Out
FCC-ID: ICUVGA-GW707
Direct3D: 5
OpenGL ?
Manufactured: 1998


Combination of the Voodoo chipset with the Macronix chipset as core for 2D graphics. The Voodoo part runs at 50 MHz with 64 bit memory bus. Due to the internal mapping of the voodoo graphics chip behind the 2D core the performance is about 10% lower than a 3dfx Voodoo card in fullscreen mode. Full triangle setup is implemented on the chip. The chip uses a 4x4 or 2x2 ordered dither matrix to generate the 16 bit color of the output pixel. There were also versions of the Voodoo Rush that used the Alliance ProMotion AT25 and AT3D as 2D chipset.

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