Diamond Stealth 3D 2000
| Technical details | |
| Name: | Stealth 3D 2000 |
| Company: | Diamond Multimedia AG |
| Chipset: | S3 ViRGE 86C325 at 50 MHz |
| Bus: | PCI |
| RAM: | 2 MB EDO DRAM 45ns 64 bit at 50 MHz |
| DAC: | integrated 135 MHz 8/15/16/24/32 bit |
| Connectors: | VGA, VESA |
| FCC-ID: | FTUPCI765TV |
| Manufactured: | 1996 |
This card features TV-Out as well as an upgrade option for a MPEG video accelerator board.
This chipset has the ViRGE On Board - (ViRGE = Virtual Reality Graphics Engine) one of the first cards for PC with 3D acceleration features in hardware. Still, it was often slower than rendering scenes by software rendering with the CPU. So it was soon nicknamed "3D decelerator". S3 introduced their own graphics API for 3D acceleration called S3D with a few games supporting it (Tomb Raider, Descent II, Terminal Velocity, Mech Warrior 2, ...) The S3 ViRGE series incorporates the same 2D graphics core as the S3 Trio64V2.
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