With this expanded product line, phase 5 digital products offers a complete line of PowerUp accelerators for the Amiga 1200, 1500/2000, 3000 and 4000 models, and provides a smooth upgrade path for owners of 68030-, 68040- or 68060-based accelerators. Additionally, phase 5 will release a fast graphics card as an add-on to those PowerUp models that go into the desktop and tower models, namely the Cyberstorm PPC and the Blizzard 2604 Power Board. The 1997 PowerUp accelerator product line includes the follwoing models:
Cyberstorm PPC
The Cyberstorm PPC accelerator is the high-end PowerUp accelerator for Amiga 3000/4000(T) systems and systems with a compatible processor slot. It features a high-performance PowerPC604e RISC processor in different clock speeds and a socket for either a 68040 or a 68060 processor, a memory expansion option for up to 128 MByte of ultra-fast 64-bit memory, a Wide-Ultra-SCSI controller on board and an expansion slot for high-performance expansions such as the CyberVisionPPC (see below). This board is ideally suited for all A3000/A4000 users who already own an accelerator with either a 68040 or 68060 processor; for Cyberstorm users it will be the PowerUp upgrade offer.
Blizzard 603e Power Board
The Blizzard 603e Power Board is the inexpensive PowerUp accelerator for Amiga 1200 systems. It features a high-performance PowerPC603e RISC processor @ 175 MHz clock speed and a socket for a 68030 companion processor @ 50 MHz, a memory expansion option for up to 64 MByte of high-speed memory, and a Fast-SCSI-II controller on board. This board is ideally suited for all A1200 users who already own an accelerator with a socketed 68030 processor; for Blizzard 1230-II, Blizzard 1230-III and Blizzard 1230-IV users it will be the PowerUp upgrade offer.
Blizzard 603e+ Power Board
The Blizzard 603e+ Power Board is the high-end PowerUp accelerator for Amiga 1200 systems. It features a high-performance PowerPC603e RISC processor @ 200 MHz clock speed and a socket for a 68040 or 68060 companion processor, a memory expansion option for up to 64 MByte of high-speed memory, and a Fast-SCSI-II controller on board. This board will be ideally suited for all A1200 users who already own an accelerator with a 68040 or 68060 processor; for Blizzard 1240T/ERC and Blizzard 1260 users it will be the PowerUp upgrade offer.
Blizzard 2604e Power Board
The Blizzard 2604e Power Board is the high-end PowerUp accelerator for Amiga 2000 (in the UK Amiga 1500) systems. It features a high-performance PowerPC604e RISC processor and a socket for either a 68040 or a 68060 companion processor, a memory expansion option for up to 128 MByte of ultra-fast 64-bit memory, a Wide-Ultra-SCSI controller on board and an expansion slot for high-performance expansions such as the CyberVisionPPC (see below). This board is ideally suited for all A1500/A2000 users who already own an accelerator with either a 68040 or 68060 processor; for Blizzard 2040/2060 users it will be the PowerUp upgrade offer.
The following table lists the members of the PowerUp accelerator product family:
| Technical data of the PowerUp-Boards |
|
Cyberstorm PPC |
Blizzard 603e Powerboard |
Blizzard 603e+ Powerboard |
Blizzard 2604 Powerboard |
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| Processor |
PowerPC604e 150-200 MHz |
PowerPC603e 175 MHz |
PowerPC603e 200 MHz |
PowerPC604e 150-200 MHz |
| Companion CPU |
68040/68060 25-50 MHz |
68030 50MHz |
68040/68060 25-50 MHz |
68040/68060 25-50 MHz |
| PPC Performance | @ 200 MHz | @ 200 MHz | ||
| - MIPS | 350 | 250 | 280 | 350 |
| - SpecFP95 | 7,1 | 3,6 | 4,1 | 7,1 |
| Memory Option | max. 128 MB | max. 64 MB | max. 64 MB | max. 128 MB |
| SIMM Sockets | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| SCSI on board | Ultra-Wide | Fast SCSI-II | Fast SCSI-II | Ultra-Wide |
| Suitable for | A3000/A4000(T) | A1200 | A1200 | A2000 |
| Est. Availability | End of Mai 97 | End of June 97 | End of July 97 | End of August 97 |
| UK prices in Pound including VAT | ||||
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UK Price in Pound (w/o 68k Companion CPU) |
150MHz 499.00 | 299.00 | 399.00 | 150MHz 529.00 |
| 180MHz 599.00 | 180MHz 629.00 | |||
| 200MHz 699.00 | 200MHz 729.00 | |||
| UK Price in the PowerUp UpGrade Program in Pounds | 150MHz 460.00 | 280.00 | 329.00 | 150MHz 490.00 |
| 180MHz 530.00 | 180MHz 560.00 | |||
| 200MHz 620.00 | 200MHz 650.00 | |||
| US prices in US$ excluding local VAT | ||||
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US Price in US$ (w/o 68k Companion CPU) |
150MHz 709.00 | 429.00 | 599.00 | 150MHz 739.00 |
| 180MHz 849.00 | 180MHz 879.00 | |||
| 200MHz 969.00 | 200MHz 999.00 | |||
| US Price in the PowerUp UpGrade Program in US$ | 150MHz 669.00 | 399.00 | 529.00 | 150MHz 699.00 |
| 180MHz 769.00 | 180MHz 799.00 | |||
| 200MHz 869.00 | 200MHz 899.00 | |||
CyberVisionPPC - A high-end graphic card for use with the Cyberstorm PPC and the Blizzard 2604 Power Board
The CyberVisionPPC is a high-performance graphic card which can be installed on the expansion slot of the PowerPC604e-based PowerUp Accelerators, the Cyberstorm PPC and the Blizzard 2604 Power Board. It is scheduled for delivery in August, and will become available simultaneously with the Blizzard 2604 Power Board. Especially for the Blizzard 2604 the use of the CyberVisionPPC is highly recommended as the slow access to the ECS chip memory or Zorro-II-based graphics boards in the A1500/A2000 may limit the system performance in applications with lots of graphic output; but also the performance of the Cyberstorm PPC will benefit significantly from the data transfer rates of up to 100 MB/s (from the processor into the video memory) in demanding applications such as fast 3D visualization and similar tasks.
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 a 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 P owerPC604e 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 used 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 US $299.00; customers of a PowerUp upgrade can buy this board for a special rate of US $239.00.
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