ATI WinBoost: specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started WinBoost sales 1 November 1995 at a recommended price of $229. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Mach architecture and made with 600 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 2 MB of EDO memory clocked at 0.04 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 320.0 MB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCI interface.

General info

Some basic facts about WinBoost: 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	Mach64
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	1 November 1995 (28 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$229

Technical specs

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

Core clock speed	40 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	1 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	600 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of WinBoost 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	PCI
Width	1-slot

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on WinBoost: 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	EDO
Maximum RAM amount	2 MB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed	40 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	320.0 MB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on WinBoost. 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 support

APIs supported by WinBoost, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	N/A
OpenGL	N/A	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

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

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