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Powermac 6220CD

Idly, I hadn't been aware Radius also made PCI video cards. It would be neat to see someone stuff one into a 7000/8000/9000 and use it instead of a Rage128 or Radeon.
Interestingly enough, I'd been interested in them forever floating around on ebay.  I bought one some time back and actuallly used it in my G3-upgraded PCC Powerbase.

It was... interesting.  This was the "faster" ThunderPower one meant for higher end 604s (no DSP board connections; still there but the pins aren't).  It had some interesting (standard on 2D cards at the time) features: pan-n-zoom and setting a virtual resolution higher than the resolution on the display.  Performance against my Radeon wasn't impressive for a multi-grand card (I thought it would compete 2D-wise).  I honestly think they just plunked their nubus architecture on a pci card.  It did have 30-bit DACs, for what's it worth.

Being as Radius always gave the card a name (1600 etc) based on the highest resolution offered in 24-bit, I don't know why they called it the Thunderpower 30/1920 since it only had 6MB VRAM and simply couldn't pull it off.

 
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