Find out clock speed on older video card?

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imzjustplayin

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How do I figure out the clock speed on a Mobility Rage M1 video card? What about a Rage 128? Or a Rage pro? Rage II? Riva 128? Savage S3? etc. etc.? while some numbers you can find online, others you can't because the clock speeds are determined by the bios (I think) which is why I'd like to run a utility to find out. I tried running 0.9 version of GPUz but it didn't detect the video card on my machine with the Mobility Rage M1 with windows 2000. The newer versions (past .1) don't work on Windows 2000 for what ever reason, I've tried Rage 128 tweaker but I don't think it's detecting the clock speeds correctly and I can't find Rage II or Rage 3D tweaker anymore for download. I tried Riva tuner and it didn't seem to be of any use either.

Any ideas?
 
Unfortunately, the Rage Pro clock speeds have faded into oblivion. I'm not sure anybody really knew them, and tweaker articles did not post them. I never owned one (knew better than to waste my money) so I never tried to overclock.

I can, however, tell you the default clock sped of a Rendition v2200 chipset (63 MHz) :)

From the performance, I surmise a clock speed in the 40-50MHz region.
 
Repeater said:
Have you tried running GPU-Z?
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You obviously did not read the original post, especially the part where he says:
I tried running 0.9 version of GPUz but it didn't detect the video card on my machine with the Mobility Rage M1 with windows 2000. The newer versions (past .1) don't work on Windows 2000 for what ever reason
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Thanks for playing though, really.


Back on topic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Rage

Doesn't have ALL the info you're looking for, but some.
 
imzjustplayin said:
that wiki page is inaccurate which is WHY I'm looking for this information, inorder to update it so that it's accurate.
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Good luck to you, I was actually the one who added the section about the Rage Pro Turbo bullshit. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of information about this card, as enthusiasts stayed far away from it. I did put a lot of work into the Rendition Wikipedia page, as I had a lot more hands-on experience :)

Well, here's one piece of trivia you might want to include. The Rage Pro supposedly had multitexture hardware support (see Carmack's .plan comment about it here)! But for some reason, it was never really used by developers. I got the impression from various sites that the card is missing some critical features to make multitexture support work.

As I look deeper, this gets more and more interesting. I guess Brian Hook leveraged the Rage Pro's multitexturing capability, because it toasts both a Voodoo Graphics and Rendition v2200 in Q3Test (these are two cards that used to destroy the Rage Pro).

The raw benchmarks:

3Dfx Voodoo3 3000 640x480x16bpp 51.6
NVidia RivaTNT2 640x480x16bpp 48.4
3Dfx Voodoo2 640x480x16bpp 46.9
NVidia RivaTNT 640x480x16bpp 46.6
ATI Rage128 640x480x16bpp 46.2
3Dfx Voodoo Banshee 640x480x16bpp 37.6
NVidia Riva128 640x480x16bpp 31.0
S3 Savage3D 640x480x16bpp 25.7
S3 Savage3D 640x480x16bpp 25.6 r_picmip 0
Intel i740 640x480x16bpp 25.0
Matrox G200 640x480x16bpp 23.1
ATI Rage Pro 640x480x16bpp 20.1
3Dfx Voodoo 1 640x480x16bpp 16.8 r_picmip 2
Rendition V2200 640x480x16bpp 15.9
 
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