Apple System Profiler: Identifies Video Card as ATY Instead of ATI

Apple System Profiler is properly displaying the information located in the ROM (Read Only Memory) on the ATI card, or ATI video chipset itself. This is because ATI chose to identify themselves as ATY in the ROM. It is not an issue with ASP nor does it indicate a different vendor.

You will notice this discrepancy after performing the following steps:

1. Run Apple System Profiler 2.1.x or later.
2. Click the Devices and Volumes tab.
3. Click the PCI tab.

The picture below illustrates how the ATI RAGE 128 Pro chipset, used in some Power Macintosh G3 and G4 computers, appears in the ASP Devices and Volumes tab under Mac OS X. The card name and model will vary depending upon what card or chipset is installed. See below for some examples.

ASP Devices and Volumes tab under Mac OS X

Apple System Profiler Identifiers	Display Card Name and Apple System Profiler Data
	RAGE 128 Pro	Radeon 7500	Radeon 8500
Card type:	display	ATY,DDParent	ATY,DDParent
Card name:	ATY,Rage128Pd	ATY,BlueStoneParent	ATY,R200Parent
Card model:	ATY,Rage128Pro	ATY,RV200	ATY,R200
Card ROM #:	113-72701-125	113-91701-222	113-85710-123
Card revision:	0	0	0
Card vendor ID:	1002	1002	1002

Table 1 Examples ASP data of some recent display cards

ATI video cards were used in a number of products, including, but not limited to:

• Power Mac G4 - all models
• Power Mac G4 Cube
• iMac - all models
• iBook - all models
• PowerBook G3 - all models
• PowerBook G4
• Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and White)
• Power Macintosh G3

Note: In some models, an alternate video card could be substituted for the ATI card.