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Technology Stocks : ATI Technologies in 1997 (T.ATY)
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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (2664)2/4/1999 1:51:00 PM
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I didn't follow your link so I'm not sure if they have posted any further information from S3, but from what I know of the Savage4:

-They didn't post any fill rates. This is very important. I would expect it to be at least in line with TNT2 given its timeframe.

-Single pass trilinear, multitexturing, 32MB of memory, no significant hit on 32bpp rendering etc. are all things that the Rage128 already does.

-What do they mean by 2nd generation motion compensation? Motion comp is a very well defined process. I can't think of any enhancements to this other than if they didn't do subpixel accuracy before and have now added this. (This has been there since RagePro)
They still don't do IDCT or have the overlay quality and capabilities of the R128.

-AGP 4x: All the major players will have this ready in the same timeframe.

In short, I didn't see any significant new features. It is definitely not leapfrogging anybody with any new features, and if anything, it seems that it is playing catch up with the Rage128. The only thing it has on top of it is AGP 4x, which ATI will come out with in the same timeframe. The only thing that might skew this picture is if the Savage4 were to have let's say 400-500Mp fill rate or something. This would be absolutely necessary given their timeframe otherwise this part will be obsolete before it's even released.
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