A 10 Mb 3D frame buffer memory with Z-compare and alpha-blend units
Kazunari Inoue, Hiroki Nakamura, H. Kawai, T. Tani, Y. Sakemi, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Masatoshi Ishikawa, J. Matsumoto, Kaoru Yamamoto, Kunimasa Takahashi, Masao Yamawaki, E. Yokomoto, C.A. Hart, J. Lin, K. Ishihara, Kazuhiro Shimotori · 2002
Describes a 3D-RAM frame buffer memory that integrates Z-compare and /spl alpha/-blend units on a single 10 Mb DRAM chip. 3D-RAM greatly accelerates rendering speed to 400 Mpixel/s, ten times as fast as conventional DRAMs and VRAMs.