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To: NTT who wrote (2677)	2/5/1999 2:13:00 AM
From: Sleeperz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5927

The Rage proven what where? It is not even on the PC market yet. The Rage Fury has been delayed several times already. The Rage does even have antriscopic filtering which helps to improve its speed and slows down on Trilinear. If you read SIIIs PR it says they support TRUE 32 BIT 3D Rendering and 4X-AGP and digital flat panel support. The chip also offers DVD hardware acceleration and trilinear-filtered single-pass multi-texturing. So your saying the RAGE 128 doesn't fit into the High performance category either since the S4 offers similiar performance. Well I categorize the RAGE 128 as Hi performance, hence the Savage 4 is also high performance at least for the next 6 months. 1) It doesn't fit into the high performance category because it is going to offer similar features to the Rage128, but 6 months from now. Even then, it still won't have all of the frills like an IDCT engine or a HDTV capable overlay. I also didn't see mention of full stencil buffer or 32bit Z, but I could be mistaken. The Rage128 already has proven superb 32bit rendering abilities. A Rage Pro XL costs $25 the same as the Savage 4 GT. Where do you get the Savage 4 costs 4 times more?? 2) It certainly doesn't fit in the low cost category simply because it costs about 4 times as much as ATI's low end AGP part. Its price is actually in the same category as its competitors motherboard implementations of their high performance parts. Well the Savage 4 looks to cost less than the Rage Fury whenever it comes out. And as I pointed out before the Savage 4 is offering just good performance at a reasonable price. 3) And it doesn't fit in the mid performance, mid cost category simply because the competition will be offering parts with potentially double the performance for the same price point. Mind you, I haven't seen any actual fill rate quotations on this part, but my guess is that it's low otherwise they would have mentioned it. It needs to be in the 400-500Mp range in order to be competitive at that time frame. Even then, it will be just one of the crowd -- nothing revolutionary.