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To: Peter S. who wrote (11493)	4/1/1999 6:19:00 PM
From: Obewon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

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.