Archív – S3 Savage4 8mb Figyelem: PCI

Azert annyira nem. 386 korszak 14 evvel elotte volt, de meg s 486 is 10
Igen, a TNT1 16MB volt. A savage4 nalam is bejott a tnt2 elott.

Egyaltalan nem durva, bar pci. TNT2 korszakban ez mar sovany volt. Bar az S3TC miatt az ut/q3 jol ment vele, de nem ezzel a 8MB verzioval, ahhoz AGP x4 es 32MB kellett. Az arra jol emelkszel, bar a 32MB AGP-t lehetett venni 20k korul. A TNT2 tobb, mint ketszer ennyi volt. Plane az Ultra. A Savage4 Pro es a TNT2 Pro-m meg mindig meg van.

"Savage4 was hardly a match for the new 3dfx Voodoo3, ATI Rage 128, Matrox G400, or NVIDIA Riva TNT2. In OpenGL games such as Quake II, Savage4 performed about as well as G400 did with its slow initial OpenGL support and was far behind TNT2 and Voodoo3. Within Direct3D titles such as Shogo: Mobile Armor Division, Savage 4 scored almost 50% slower than TNT2 and Voodoo3 even at a low resolution such as 800x600.[1] The chip was very popular for budget machines, with many generic retail products based on it and OEM PC wins.
Only the high-quality texture capability from its S3TC support gave it good mind share with the gaming community. Unreal Tournament and Quake III Arena, two popular games at the time, shipped with built-in support for S3TC. The compressed textures were a vast improvement over the standard textures used on all other cards. Not only that, but S3TC allowed these much higher quality textures to be rendered with negligible performance impact."