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Formac ProVision 4
From Higher Intellect Vintage Wiki
Both ProVision4/60 and ProVision 4/80 have been designed with the power-user in mind. With its leading technology, Formac sets new standards in the area of high-end graphic accelerators.
- high-end PCI graphic accelerator with 128 Bit databus
- ultimate acceleration of screen redraw through Imagine 128 processor
- resolutions up to 1920 x 1080 Pixel at 24 Bit colour depth and 75 Hz
- up to 385 MB/s data processing on the card
- extensive features like quickdrawÐacceleration, fontÐ and pictÐcache
- control panel to access the card's main features
- hardware pan/zoom
| BUS | Databus | Processor | Horizonal Scan | Maximum Dot Clock |
D-RAM | V-RAM | max. resolution at 8 Bit |
max. resolution at 16 Bit |
max. resolution at 24 / 32 Bit |
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ProVison 4/60 |
PCI | 128 Bit | #9 Imagine 128 | 60 MHz | 220 MHz | - | 4 MB | 1920x1080 / 65 Hz | 1920x1080 / 65 Hz | 1152x870 / 100 Hz |
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ProVison 4/80 |
PCI | 128 Bit | #9 Imagine 128 | 60 MHz | 220 MHz | - | 8 MB | 1920x1080 / 72 Hz | 1920x1080 / 72 Hz | 1920x1080 / 72 Hz |
| Multi Resolution |
Hardware Cursor |
Apple Timing 75 Hz |
Formac Timing 80 Hz |
Font-Cache | Pict-Cache | Quickdraw | Quickdraw 3D | QuickTime | MPEG | Hardware Pan/Zoom |
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The ProVision4 is the top model among the high-end graphic accelerators. For the real power user, this card leaves nothing to be desired. Pictures are processed at a speed up to 385 MB per second. The ProVision 4 allows a resolution of up to 1920 x 1080 pixel with 16.7 million colours. Comprehensive power user features like quickdraw-acceleration, font- and pict-cache, hardware pan/zoom and a hardware screen saver are also included. All in all a truly high end card, only available from Formac.