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To: Jeff Lins who wrote (8939)11/12/1998 1:24:00 AM
From: Patrick Grinsell  Read Replies (1) of 16960
 
Serious OEM competition for Banshee...

***Trident Announces Blade 3D Chip
(November 11)

Trident Microsystems introduced the Blade 3D, media accelerator.
The new device provides advanced 3D features for the sub-$1,000
and above PCs.

Specifications include:

The 3D-triangle peak rate is 2.5 million triangles per
second(with back face culling);

The maximum fill rate is 110 Million pixels per second.

Direct3D DX6.0 Anisotropic plus Trilinear texture filtering
as well as compressed texture format DXT1 and DXT2.

MIP Mapping with 11 levels of detail (LOD) calculations and
perspective correction, and performs color keying for
translucency.

true color 32-bit rendering with per pixel complexity and
1/16th sub-pixel precision.

Open GL compliance with blending for fog and depth queuing.

a 4 Kbytes-texture cache that is claimed to provide over 90%
hit rates and, along with multiple buffering and page flipping.

THAMA DVDPlayback (Trident Hardware Assisted MPEG2/AC3),
working with the Mediamatics and the software-only DVD playback
from Cyberlink.

The Blade 3D, produced in a .25 Micron process, will be available
in Q1, 1999 for $17.00 in quantities of 10K.

Pat's Comments:
The price makes this device serious competition. Banshee performance at almost half the price. Thank god for branding.

Pat
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