S3 Savage 3D Tech Specs:

High Performance 3D/2D/Video Accelerator

  • New Single Cycle 3D Architecture
  • 5M triangles/second Triangle Setup Engine
  • 128-bit Dual Rendering Pipeline
  • 125M pixels/sec Trilinear Fill Rate
  • Full AGP 2X Implementation including Sideband Addressing and AGP Execute Mode

3D Rendering Features

  • Single Cycle Trilinear Filtering
  • S3® Texture Compression
  • True Colour Rendering
  • Void and Cluster Dithering for 16-bit Modes
  • Specular Lighting and Diffuse Shading
  • Alpha Blending Modes
  • MPEG-2 Video Textures
  • Edge Anti-Aliasing
  • Vertex and Table Fog
  • 16- or 24-bit Z-buffering
  • Sprite Anti-Aliasing, Reflection and Environment Mapping, Texture Morphing, Shadows, Procedural Textures, and Atmospheric Effects

2D Acceleration Features

  • Highly Optimised 128 bit Graphics Engine
  • Full Featured 2D Engine for acceleration of Bitblt, Rectangle Fill, Line Draw, Polygon Fill, Panning/Scrolling and HW Cursor
  • 8, 16, and 32 bpp Mode Acceleration

High Speed Memory Interface

  • 125MHz SDR SGRAM with Block Write
  • 64-bit Synchronous Memory Bus
  • 2-, 4-, or 8MB Frame Buffer
  • SDRAM for cost savings
  • SO-DIMM Memory Upgrade
  • 512Kx32 or 256Kx32 Memory Parts

High Quality TV Out
  • Integrated NTSC/PAL Encoder
  • Programmable 3-tap Flicker Filter
  • Vertical Overscan Compensation
  • Simultaneous CRT and TV Display



     
                                         
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