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Appendix H Compaq/Matrox Millennium G450 AGP Graphics Card
Compaq Personal Computers
Original - November 2000
H-2
H.2 FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
The Matrox Millennium G450-SD Graphics Card provides high performance 2D and 3D display
imaging. The card’s AGP design provides an economical approach to 3D processing by off-
loading 3D effects such as texturing, z-buffering and alpha blending to the system memory while
32 megabytes of on-board SDRAM stores the main display image.
Figure H-2. Matrox Millennium G450 Graphics Card Block diagram
The Matrox Millennium G450 Graphics Card includes the following features:
♦ 64-MB SDRAM frame buffer using 128-bit 166-MHz access
♦ AGP 4X transfers with sideband addressing
♦ 2D drawing engine with:
• 128-bit BitBLTs, rectangle/polygon fills, line draws
• Hardware cursor
• 8-/16-/32-bpp mode acceleration
♦ Dual-head features:
• Two analog monitor (RGB) ports
• DVD max mode
• DualHead zoom mode
• DualHead clone mode
• DualHead TV output mode
♦ 3D accelerator with:
• Hardware transform and lighting
• Anistropic filtering
• Specular lighting diffuse, flat and Gouraud shading
• 16-/24-bit Z-buffering
♦ 360-MHz primary RAMDAC, 200-MHz secondary RAMDAC
♦ VESA compliancy:
• Dual DDC2B monitor support
• VIP 2.0 interface
• DPMS, EPA Energy Star, and ACPI-compliant power management
BIOS
ROM
128-bit
166-MHz
Data Bus
Analog
Monitor
Connector 1
RGB
MGA Graphics Controller
3D Array
Engine
Video
Scalar
AGP
Bus
Card
Edge
Connector
H/VSync
2D/VGA
Engine
32 MB
SDRAM
Frame Buffer
AGP 4X
I/F
350-MHz
RAMDAC
CRT
Controller
RGB
Analog
Monitor
Connector 2
200-MHz
RAMDAC
H/VSync
Memory
I/F