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Rendition Vérité V1000

ID: RENDITION-VERITE
RELEASED 1995
PRICE
DISCONTINUED 1998
UNITS SOLD Moderate

I/O PORTS

PCI

System Analysis

The first true consumer 3D accelerator. Beat Voodoo to market but lost the war. Programmable in an era of fixed function.

Processor

50 MHz
V1000

RISC core with programmable microcode.

Audio Subsystem

0
None

N/A

Memory

EDO DRAM
4 MB

Expandable to 4 MB

Storage

N/A
N/A

Graphics Architecture

Vérité V1000
Palette: 16-bit Color
  • 640x480
  • 800x600
Hardware Tricks
  • ▹ Bilinear filtering
  • ▹ Z-buffering
  • ▹ Combined 2D/3D

Did You Know?

  • ? Quake had a Rendition-specific port (VQuake).
  • ? Microsoft partnered with Rendition for Direct3D development.
  • ? The V2100/V2200 improved performance but couldn't catch Voodoo2.