Trident Microsystems - Graphics Chipsets

Graphics Chipsets

The following lists are not complete.

Desktop

  • TVGA 8200LX (1987)
  • TVGA 8800 (1988) - first S/VGA compatible chipset (ISA), 512KB framebuffer
    • 8800BR (512KB, 128KB banks only)
    • 8800CS (512KB, 64KB banks + old/new mode support)
  • TVGA 8900 - high-color (65,536) display-mode support, 1MB framebuffer
    • 8900B (up to 1MB)
    • 8900C (up to 1MB, SVGA, ISA)
    • 8900CL (up to 2MB, SVGA, ISA/VLB. Slightly faster than earlier 8900 cards)
    • 8900D (up to 2MB, 8900CL w/ bugs corrected)
    • 8900DR (SVGA, ISA, max 1MB)
  • TVGA 9000 - first integrated (VGA+RAMDAC) VGA chipset
    • 9000 (low component version)
    • 9000B (1992)
    • 9000C (1992) - External RAMDAC
    • 9000i - (rev. a/b/c, 512KB, 9000 w/ onchip 15/16bit DAC + clock gen)
    • 9000i-1 (1994) - appeared on Trident's VC512TM ISA video cards
    • 9100B - Slightly faster 9000


  • TVGA 92xx, TVGA 938x, TVGA 94xx - first Windows accelerators
    • 9200CXr
    • 9380
    • 9385
    • 9388
    • 9400CXi (max 2MB, truecolor, onchip 24bit DAC + clock gen)
    • 9420DGi (PCI, 9400 w/ 2D acceleration )
    • 9430DGi (PCI, 9420 w/ hardware cursor)
  • TGUI 9440 (1994) - first performance competitive Windows 2D-accelerator (2MB PCI/VLB)
    • 9440AGi (PCI, 9430 w/ 16bit DAC interface + programmable clock)
    • 9440-1
    • 9440-3 - Unknown changes, differently designed Trident logo, rare
    • 9460
    • TVGA9470


  • TGUI 966x - similar to 9440, 64-bit datapath
    • 9660
    • 9660XGi
  • 968x - motion video accelerator (zoom + YUV->RGB, Directdraw overlay)
    • 9680 - (64bit, 1-4MB, 9660 w/ video acceleration)
    • 9680XGi
    • 9682 (9680 with video in)
    • 9683
    • ProVidia 9685 (TV video out, UMA)


  • 3DImage9750, 3DImage9850 - first Windows 3D-accelerators (4-8MB PCI/AGP)
    • 3DImage 9750 (64bit, PCI/AGP, TV out)
    • 3DImage 9753
    • 9753WAVE (9753 + 32voice wavetable, 0.35ym, 208PQFP)
    • 3DImage 9754
    • 3DImage 9750DVD (9750 with DVD decoder)
    • 9783
    • 9785
    • 3DImage 9850 (Faster 9750 core, AGP2X, AGP only)
    • 3DImage 985DVD (DVD Acceleration)
    • 3DImage 9850+ (Faster)
    • 3DImage SME-GMA (Superscalar, Memory Enhanced, Graphics Mode Adaptability. Laptop graphics chip with 6MB embedded DRAM, smooth scaling for non-native resolutions and hardware MPEG2 decoding for DVD playback. Based on 9850+ Core.)


  • Blade3D 9880 (1999) - first performance competitive Windows 3D-accelerators (8MB PCI/AGP)
  • Blade3D Turbo 9880T - 135Mhz clockspeed, up from 110Mhz on the Blade 3D vanilla.
  • Blade T16 9950 - little known
  • Blade T64 9970 - dual-pixel quad-texture engine, AGP4X, 32MB of memory, 64-bit datapath
  • Blade XP 9980 Same as T64 except 128-bit datapath, 200Mhz vs. 166Mhz
  • XP4 - DirectX 8 chip.
  • XP4E - AGP8x support.
  • XP8 (cancelled) - DirectX 9 chip, marketed for under $100US.
  • XP10 (cancelled) - PCI Express controller.

Mobile

  • Cyber9320
  • Cyber9382
  • Cyber9385
  • Cyber9397 and Cyber9397DVD
  • 9525DVD
  • CyberBlade
    • CyberBlade Ai1
    • CyberBlade e4-128
    • CyberBlade i1
    • CyberBlade i7
  • Blade XP
  • XP4
    • XP4m16/XP4m32 - embedded memory.
  • XP8 (cancelled) - DirectX 9 chip.

Integrated

  • ALi CyberALADDiN-T
  • ALi CyberALADDiN-P4 (CyberBLADE XP2)
  • ? (codename Napa2T)
  • ? (codename Napa2-P4)
  • ? (codename Napa2-Banias)

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