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=== TIGA cards ===
Number Nine graphics cards using Texas Instruments' [[Texas Instruments Graphics Architecture|TIGA]] co-processors were made from about 1986 to 1992. The Texas Instruments TMS-340x0 co-processors were coupled with custom Number Nine-designed application specific chips, which could only handle very primitive graphics functions such as clipping. Nevertheless, this was a major accomplishment. With the exception of the GXi Lite, all of the TIGA graphics cards were large, full length cards.

Cards using a TIGA co-processor were (in approximate order of introduction):

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! #9 Model !! TIGA co-processor !! Memory !! PC Bus Architecture
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| Pepper || TMS-34010 || ?? || ISA
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| Pepper SGT<ref>{{Cite web |title=Number Nine Pepper SGT |url=https://ardent-tool.com/video/Number_Nine_Pepper_SGT.html |access-date=2022-12-15 |website=Ardent Tool of Capitalism}}</ref>|| TMS-34010 + Intel 82786 || 1 MB, 4 MB? || ISA
|-
| Pepper Pro 1024<ref>{{ cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qDAEAAAAMBAJ&dq=number+nine+computer+corporation+pepper&pg=PT25 | title=Number Nine Announces Series of Graphics Cards | date=20 Nov 1989 | accessdate=Jan 13, 2011}}</ref> || TMS-34010 || 1.5M, 2M || [[Micro Channel architecture|MCA]], ISA
|-
| Pepper Pro 1280<ref>{{Cite web |title=Famous Graphics Chips: Number Nine's Imagine 128 {{!}} IEEE Computer Society |date=13 May 2019 |url=https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/chasing-pixels/famous-graphics-chips-number-nines-imagine-128/ |access-date=2022-12-15 |language=en-US}}</ref>|| TMS-34010 || ?? || MCA?, ISA
|-
| Pepper Pro 1600 || TMS-34010 || ?? || MCA?, ISA
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| GX || TMS-34010? || ?? 1 MB DRAM? + 2 MB VRAM? || MCA?, ISA
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| GXi Lite || TMS-34020 || 1 MB DRAM + 1 MB VRAM || MCA?, ISA
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| GXi || TMS-34020 || 1 MB DRAM + 2 MB VRAM || MCA?, ISA
|-
| GXiTC<ref>{{Cite web |title=retronn.de Hardware Gallery |url=http://retronn.de/imports/hwgal/hw_n9_gxitc_front.html |access-date=2022-12-15 |website=retronn.de}}</ref>|| TMS-34020 || 1 MB? DRAM + 4 MB VRAM || MCA?, ISA
|}
The TIGA-based cards were very expensive in their day, ranging in price from $995 to $2495 at introduction.