Overview

The Mpact-2 is a versatile 125 MHz vector-processing media processor developed by Chromatic Research as the second generation in the Mpact family. It serves as a co-processor to the main Central Processing Unit (CPU) of a microcomputer and offers the following key features:

Hardware Compatibility:

• Can be used with either a PCI or AGP bus
• Plug-and-play facility through OEM firmware

Specifications:

• Made by LG Semicon
• 350nm process technology
• 3.5 million transistors
• 4MB or 8MB memory size with RDRAM memory type
• Maximum memory size: 8MB
• Supports 15-pin D‐sub and RCA/CINCH outputs
• Power consumption: 4.45W
• Video acceleration: MPEG-2 (DVD)
• DirectX: DX3/5
• Core Clock: 125 MHz
• Effective Memory Clock: 500 MHz
• Memory Bus Width: 18-bit
• Memory Bandwidth: 1125 MB/s
• Pixel Pipelines: 1
• Texture Units: 1
• Pixel Fillrate: 41.6 MPixel/s
• Ramdac: 230 MHz

Launched in 1997, the Mpact-2 was an integral part of multimedia processing solutions during its time, offering impressive performance and compatibility with various hardware interfaces.