Found this at AGN3D:
Creative Labs TNT2 Killer! - 1:04:PM - Jeremy Allford
I spent some time on the phone with Creative's Jim Carlton this morning talking
about a new graphics chip that Creative was developing overseas in Singapore. I
have to admit that I was not really surprised that Creative is making a chip, after
all why pay a middle man to do your work? The thing that truly surprised me is
how powerful their new chip is going to be, with over two times the performance
of the TNT2 running at 183MHz!. Even though the drivers for the card are not
finished, they are already getting 100 frames per second in Quake 2 at
1600x1200! Creative will be showing off the chip at this weeks upcoming
WinHEC in California, but since we are their favorite website they have given me
some features of the card, along with hi-resolution screenshots that were taken
on their alpha silicon.
First 0.18 micron based graphics chip!
Chip speed of up to 400MHz internally, 175MHz externally.
Full 256-bit graphics processor
Up to 64MB of DRAM/RDRAM clocked at up to 200MHz
AGP 4X/2X Support & Interface
FULL Support for OpenGL and D3D and Glide (Glide is still under
investigation, the board that they shipped me did support Glide though.)
2D-3D true color resolution up to 2046x1536
3D Features:
100% hardware triangle setup
Quad-tech, quad 64-bit graphics pipeline
8 texturemapped, lit pixels per clock
Single pass multi-texturing
Bump mapping
Texture modulation
Virtual texture support
Light Maps
Reflections Map
Environmental Maps
Produceral textures
Backbend blend
64-bit ARGB rendering with destination alpha
Point sampled, bilinear, trilinear and 8-tap anistropic filtering
Per pixel perspective correct texture alpha
64-bit, 32-bit or 16-bit HW Z-buffer (fixed or floating point precision)
8-bit stencil buffer
Full scene anti-aliasing
Anisotropic filtering support
2D Features:
High performance 128-bit 2D/GUI/Direct Draw Acceleration; pipeline
optimized for multiple color depths including 8, 15, 16, 24 and 32 bpp
Full hardware support for DVD-playback
Misc. Features:
Digital Flat Panel support (connector IS standard)
Flicker filtered S-Video connector, supports NTCS and PAL (standard)
with up to 1024x768 output.
Integrated 350Mhz RAMDAC supporting up to 2048*1536
AGP 2x and 4x support
Dual Head video support for up to two monitors with a single card or a
monitor and a TV!
You can check out more information on this upcoming chip as well as
screenshots here.
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