ATI VGA Improved Performance

The VGA Improved Performance was a high-end graphics card by ATI, launched in January 1987. Built on the 800 nm process, and based on the 16899-0 graphics processor, the card does not support DirectX. Since VGA Improved Performance does not support DirectX 11 or DirectX 12, it might not be able to run all the latest games. The 16899-0 graphics processor is a relatively small chip with a die area of only 90 mm². It features 1 pixel shader and 0 vertex shaders, 0 texture mapping units, and 1 ROP. Due to the lack of unified shaders you will not be able to run recent games at all (which require unified shader/DX10+ support). ATI has paired 0 MB DRAM memory with the VGA Improved Performance, which are connected using a 32-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 10 MHz, memory is running at 10 MHz.

Being a single-slot card, its power draw is not exactly known. Display outputs include: 1x VGA. VGA Improved Performance is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI interface. The card measures 178 mm in length, and features a single-slot cooling solution. Its price at launch was 449 US Dollars.