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Actually, it is sort of. It's not a 64 bit PCI interface though. They're probably either referring to the amount of bits the chip is able to address, or the the bus to the memory. I don't remember what the exact specs were on the Cirrus chips back then. (I mostly ran S3, Tseng and Matrox during that time period.)
 
I remember really wanting the #9 Imagine 128 when it came out, because of its 128bit spec. :D Too bad it was a total piece of crap. I think the Tseng ET4000 W32P outperformed it by quite a bit. Ahh, the days when the amount of memory on the card was about the only deciding feature. :D
 
Thermite Paste said:
wait so your telling me that old chip has 64 bit graphics?
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yes

as the above poster said, systems like Nintendo 64 were 64 bit, playstation was 32 ect...

the 9800Pros that people want to buy are 256 bit just for reference
 
There are a lot of different things measured in bits with graphics though. There is color depth, internal chip architecture, memory bus width, interface width etc. You can have a 128 bit graphics chip with a 64 bit memory bus, supporting 32 bit color, on a 32 bit PCI interface. So there are lots of variables for marketing people to toss around.

Take the old NeoGeo console/arcade system for instance. It was advertised as a 24 bit system (when 16 bit consoles were the standard.) It had a 16 bit 68000 processor, and an 8 bit Z80 for audio processing. They simply added the two processors together to call it 24 bit. This sort of thing is fairly common with hardware marketing people. Incidentally, it had a 16 bit palette and could display 12 bits of color at any one time.

In order to really figure out what bit widths something supports and where, you need a fairly detailed spec sheet.
 
i have the ISA version of that card...
and i used to have a matrox mystique that said "64-bit Graphics" on the core.
 
I seem to recall Number9 having a card being a 256 bit card, am I close, or have been sniffin' too much
air-spray?
 
Brent_Justice said:
and he would be correct
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