The beginning of the Radeon graphics card in 2000: Radeon 256
In 2000, the graphics card market was very turbulent. The former graphics card king 3DFX was acquired by rival NVIDIA and replaced its king status, while other S3, Matorx and other manufacturers could hardly compete with it. Only ATI still insisted. In the face of the first GPU called the GeForce 256, ATI took out the best weapon Radeon 256, the first Radeon graphics card, which is also the beginning of the AMD card is really well known.
This is a graphics card manufactured using a 0.18 micron (1 micron = 1000 nm) process with 30 million transistors and two coloring pipelines, each with 3 raster processors. For the first time, the chip supports some of the features of DX7 and DX8, with the most advanced hardware geometry distortion, lighting effects and image cropping at that time, and with the DDR memory, it is enough to lead the opponent's GeForce 2 GTS.
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