Graphics Vantage: specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started Graphics Vantage sales on 1992 at a recommended price of $599 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Mach architecture and made with 800 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 1 MB of DRAM memory clocked at 0.01 GHz are supplied, and together with 32 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 40 MB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via ISA 16-bit interface.

Primary Details

Some basic facts about Graphics Vantage: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Mach (1992−1997)
GPU code name	Mach8
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	1992 (32 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$599
Current price	$153 (0.3x MSRP)	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Detailed Specifications

Graphics Vantage's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Graphics Vantage's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	10 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Manufacturing process technology	800 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)

Form Factor & Compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Graphics Vantage and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	ISA 16 Bit
Width	1-slot

VRAM Capacity and Type

Parameters of memory installed on Graphics Vantage: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	DRAM
Maximum RAM amount	1 MB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	32 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	10 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	40 MB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Connectivity and Outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Graphics Vantage. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

1x VGA

API Compatibility

APIs supported by Graphics Vantage, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	N/A
OpenGL	N/A	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Graphics Vantage. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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