ATi Radeon 256

This ATi Radeon 256 is 11 weeks newer then my ATi Rage 6. Week 22 of 2000 is around 29 May to 4 June. Back then people already knew the successor of the Rage 128 Pro would be Radeon 256 because ATi claimed some Radeon-domain names. See '5 april 2000' in the text of this ATi Rage6. The board looks almost identical to my ATi Rage 6 sample. This one was DVI instead of TV-out, some caps and chips are different.

Also note that this board has some resoldered transistors. You can see it near the DVI and 'feature connector'. Picture 4 shows it quite clear.

The board has the ATi Radeon logo on the backside of the PCB but a Rage6 decal on both the fan and BIOS chip. The older Rage6-sample doesn't have any Radeon names on it.

A sticker has been attached on the back of the board. It says the following:

SAMPLE ONLY-
NOT FOR QUALIFICATION
P/N 102-75001-00 Rev. 02
ISR# 989 - 025
Date: 06/02/00
Made in Canada
ASIC TYPE: RADEON
ASIC P/N: 215R6WASA12

With pencil someone wrote this onto the sticker (as far as I can read):

O.K.
D619660I16
0020SST
B1040

The Catalyst 6.2 driver for Windows '98 detects this card as an ATi Radeon 7200.

Driver name	Release date	Operating system	Download	Info
ATi Catalyst 6.2	2005-02-09	Win98 Win98SE WinME	6-2_wme_dd_cp_3031...	N/A
ATi Catalyst 6.2	2006-02-09	Win2000 WinXP	6-2_xp-2k_dd_ccc_w...	N/A

A similar card has been benchmarked! Click here to see this card and the benchmarks.