While ATI never managed to rule the benchmarks, its offerings were average performers with appealing prices. Unfortunately, the price and operating system support of the card limited its success. Expectations of the 64 MB Fury MAXX were sky-high. The high-performance enthusiast follow-up to the Rage 128 was the Rage Fury MAXX, which featured dual GPUs on a single board, a design that ATI (and AMD) would lean on in the future. The Rage 128 could do this by offering higher performance in the high-quality 32-bit color mode. The Rage 128 helped bring ATI to the mainstream, bringing performance on par with the Nvidia RIVA TNT and the Voodoo 2. Oops.įortunately, it was followed up by Rage II and eventually Rage 128. However, it missed the boat on Z-buffering, meaning it didn't quite work out as a stout competitor to rivals like the Nvidia NV1. The 3D Rage was billed as the company's first 3D accelerator, hoping to augment its high-quality 2D performance with more features. Graphics cards from this era even included an input port for a mouse. Follow up models like the Wonder 16 and VGA Edge helped spread the ATI name, and eventually, the VGA Wonder series were merged into and then replaced the Mach series of 2D accelerators.

It allowed display resolutions of 1024x768, and it featured automatic mode switching. The VGA Wonder was an add-in card for IBM PCs in the late '80s, featuring up to 512kb of video memory.

The latest driver downloads for ATI Rage and Radeon video cards / GPUs, IGPs and chipsets can be found here.The VGA Wonder Series helped put ATI on the map in the late 1980s.

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