It is a 64-bit card. Probably Pro, the stickers hardly ever lie. Amazing card, it seems it uses two ICs to make it work on PCI.

Putas wrote on 2024-01-30, 05:58:

It is a 64-bit card. Probably Pro, the stickers hardly ever lie. Amazing card, it seems it uses two ICs to make it work on PCI.

hardly .. mhm I have a Radeon 7000 that is actually a 7500 just with the 7000 sticker on it.

Certainly surprised me when both drivers and HWinfo picked it up as a 7500.

I don't think thats possible to be 128 bit with just 2 vram ICs. (never seen that so far)

There's some great pictures of the card close up here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/404405378718

Most memory chips from the mainline DRAM manufacturers have pretty sensible naming. By that I mean, the re-mark bargain bin chips can have nonsense part codes, but Micron, Samsung etc put the bit-width in the part code so you should see the number 16 or 32 in a DRAM part code.
In this picture we can see that the part code has 2x DRAM chips with a '32' in the part name so 64-bits in total. That was pretty common in the SDRAM era of video cards so it's equivalent to maybe a TNT2-M64.

Later video cards seemed to settle on 16-bit wide SGRAM / DDR SGRAM in the TSOP (2 sides with legs) package, with 32-bit wide chips for the QFP (4 sides with legs) packages and BGA (no legs). I've found that if the part code of one DRAM chip on the card can be seen, you can add up how many are on the card with the number of bits to determine whether it's a 64-bit or 128-bit card - I just made the mistake of buying a Geforce 5700 with 4x '16' DRAM chips so that's a 64-bit card, because I couldn't see the DRAM part code and assumed those were 32-bit per chip...
128-bit cards would have at least 4x BGA / PQFP chips or 8x '16' TSOP chips.

If this PCI Rage card had 4x '32' SDRAM chips then it would be 128-bit.

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-01-30, 06:12:

hardly .. mhm I have a Radeon 7000 that is actually a 7500 just with the 7000 sticker on it.

Certainly surprised me when both drivers and HWinfo picked it up as a 7500.

Markets get segmented to maximise income, and combined with economy of scale for a manufacturer, it might be more profitable overall (for one company, for a while, at least) to make one card but sell it with different labels. Some end customers pay full whack, some people get a free "upgrade".

And the lower-end cards sometimes being oddly fast can help with the reputation of the products.

Or it goes the other way, and because of problems at the card maker they cannot make enough 7000s, so mark up some 7500s as 7000s and just take a short-term loss rather than risk losing commercial buyers.

Or it is a labeling/packaging mistake, and if the company noticed it could have been cheaper to just let the cards go rather than re-do labels and packaging. Companies have machines to apply labels and box-up, but the other way would be manual. Just sell the cards! 😀

Just one note about the Rage 128 PCI, there are lots of them that were used in Apple computers with a BIOS incompatible with a x86 PC. Just be aware of that and do your research.