Oberursel, Germany, May 12 1997: Phase 5 digital products today announced the expansion of the PowerUp range. Besides the two products announced earlier, the Cyberstorm PPC and the Blizzard 603e Power Board, there will be an additional model for the A2000 and the Blizzard 603e+ Power Board, which combines the PowerPC RISC processor with an 68040 or 68060 CPU. Additionally, it has been decided that all PowerUp boards will come with SCSI on board instead of being an option.
Phase 5 will also release a fast graphics card as an
add-on to those PowerUp models that go into the big-box Amiga models, the
Cyberstorm PPC and the Blizzard 2604 Power Board.
Cyberstorm PPC | Blizzard 603e | Blizzard 603e+ | Blizzard 2604 | |
Host Amiga | A4000/A4000(T) | A1200 | A1200 | A2000 |
Processor | PowerPC 604e 150-200MHz | PowerPC 603e 175MHz | PowerPC 603e 200MHz | PowerPC 604e 150-200MHz |
Companion CPU | 68040/68060 25-50Mhz | 68030 50MHz | 68040/68060 25-50MHz | 68040/68060 25-50MHz |
Memory Options | 128MB Max | 64MB Max | 64MB Max | 128MB Max |
SIMM sockets | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Built-in SCSI | Ultra-Wide | Fast SCSI-II | Fast SCSI-II | Ultra-Wide |
Availablity | End of May 97 | End of June 97 | End of July 97 | August 97 |
UK Price No 68K CPU | 150MZz £499.00 180MHz £599.00 200MHz £699.00 | £299.00 | £399.00 | 150Mhz £529.00 180MHz £629.00 200MHz £729.00 |
UK Price PowerUp Upgrade | 150MZz £460.00 180MHz £530.00 200MHz £620.00 | £280.00 | £329.00 | 150Mhz £490.00 180MHz £560.00 200MHz £650.00 |
Note: These retail prices include VAT at 17.5%, and are based on
the exchange rate of 1UKP=DM2.70; specifications and prices are subject to
change without prior notice. Performance estimations are based on Motorola
manufacturers information. The availability of the Blizzard 603e/603e+ Power
Board for A1200 desktop systems may depend on the finalization of the CE
approval for these products, which may require the upgrade of A1200 desktop
systems into tower cases which provide additional EMC shielding. |
Not only the ultra-fast access of the processor into the video memory, but also
the internal speed and functionality of the CyberVisionPPC will provide for
breathtaking performance. The CyberVisionPPC is equipped with the powerful
PERMEDIA graphics controller, which provides an outstanding 3D performance of
up to 42 million textured 3D pixels per second, with hardware-accelerated
rendering functions such as z-buffering, gouraud-shading, fogging, blending
and anti-aliasing. As the design of the PERMEDIA hardware suits perfectly for
OpenGL implementations, it's 3D performance can support the CyberGL
functionality of CyberGraphX V3 Native which comes along with the PowerUp
boards. In combination with the high floating-point performance of the
PowerPC604e processor a breathtaking performance in professional 3D
applications can be achieved by this implementation. Additionally, the
PERMEDIA processor supports functions like color space conversion,
chroma keying and XY-scaling which will be used by the software MPEG decoding
routines of CyberGraphX V3 Native.
The CyberVisionPPC uses 64-bit wide SGRAM with a data transfer rate of up to
660 MB/s; this in combination with the fast RAM-DAC allows display resolutions
of up to 1280x1024 pixel in true color mode and with a high refresh rate of
at least 70 Hz. The boards comes along with 4 MB of display memory as standard.
The recommended price for the CyberVisionPPC will be at £219.00;
customers of a PowerUp upgrade can buy this board for a special rate of
£189.00.
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