RV100 formed the base of the Mobility Radeon 7000 (model M6) and is based on the R100. It doesn't have hardware T&L, one pixel-pipeline and a smaller, 64-bit, memory bus. The RV100 was also used in Radeon VE (later known as Radeon 7000) budget desktop cards.
A Radeon Mobility chip on an AGP board. This way it'll fit into normal desktop PC's and that makes testing/developing a lot easier.
The card runs very cool. A heatsink is not even required. Though performance is not as good as the first Radeon cards but that's not the target of this card. It runs at 166MHz and has 16MB RAM. More RAM would probably be possible but pretty much useless. Cards with this kind of performance can't render more advanced scenes due a lack of rendering power: they can't really utilize the extra RAM.
As seen on the photo's the card has two LED's, some dip-switches and connectors. I have no idea where they are meant for so I'd better not switch them and see what happens. Other connectors on the card are a DVI port, TV-out and DFP. DFP is the predecessor of DVI but never really made it so you won't come across a DFP system easily.
On the back of the card there is a sticker attached which says the following:
NON-QUALIFICATION SAMPLE
Made in Canada - NOT FOR RESALE
Eng. Mod. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
p/N 102-78302-00 Rev. 05
ISR# 1951 - 0010 Date: 05/22/01
ASIC TYPE: Mobility M6-P ASIC P/N 216P6TZAFA12
That might be a BIOS versionF41624-W25
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