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To: Chris Tomas who wrote (13082)	6/10/1999 1:28:00 PM
From: Jerry Gogol	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14577

No chance in hell would be my guess.

To: Chris Tomas who wrote (13082)	6/11/1999 11:01:00 AM
From: Chris Tomas	Respond to of 14577

This is a German to English translation so bear w/ the grammar. Savage4 - successor GX4: Something Spekuklation 3 D - C o n c e p t - - - N e w s [ 10,06,1999 ] One considers the current development in the 3d market. Single pass Multitexturing is standard, the CCU is in many cases largest limitation, as this is to be seen very beautifully with the TNT2 Ultra and G400MAX. Thus the next step is like already several times mentions the integration by geometry functions into the diagram chip, as of nVidia for the NV10 already announced. Further TMUs (texture units) is additionally to also expect nVidia tears traditionally the muzzle relatively early and far up. S3 haellt itself for example over the coming GX4 very covered and also indirectly is very heavy it to draw from someone information about the chip. We may not underestimate the Savage4 successor under any circumstances. The Savage4 shows already considerable performance, what is missing to it still is a somewhat higher filling rate and broader data paths. The 64bit - Paths as well as the limitation on 2 TMUs instead of 2 pipelines lead to it that the the surface of the Savage4 is very small, particularly compared with the TNT2 and Voodoo 3 - chips. In accordance with id-developer S3 belongs to 3dfx beside nVidia and to the companies, which operate on T & l-solutions. One assumes now once, the GX4 - chip integrates 2 complete Savage4-Kerne as well as a formform form & a Lighting - unit and naturally higher clock frequencies. Thus the chip became with Multitexturingspielen the Quadrenderer, since each of its two pipelines would be equipped with 2 TMUs. Since S3 traditionally always falls back to current manufacturing structures, one could give also 128bit of paths to the GX4 manufactured in 0.18u, without exceeding the admissible max. number of transistors. With such a configuration S3 would quite again also participate, in the play around the best 3D-Chip. We are strained. The late autumn 99 determines more excitingly than the spring 99, which brought us only lukewarm Aufguesse of existing architectures