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PowerColor's Evil KYRO
First out of the gates with the KYRO processor is PowerColor's Evil KYRO. At $139, PowerColor has priced this card to compete directly with products based on NVIDIA's mid-end GeForce2 MX GPU.
Specifications
- AGP 2x/4x 128-bit 2D/3D/Video Accelerator
- PowerVR Series 3 "KYRO" GAME Arcade with 32MB or 64MB Memory
- Fast 128-bit 2D Engine & integrated DVD Decode Assist Motion compensation
- Superfill rate technology for best 3D image Quality
- Deferred Texturing technique for only visible pixels are textured and rendered
- Supports all industry standards PC 99A, DirectX, OpenGL & DVI
- Integrated 270Mhz RAMDAC support up to 1920x1280 true color at 75Hz refresh rate
- Support Optional NTSC/PAL TV-Out with flicker filter. 3D graphics Performance
- Flat and Gouraud shading / Perspective texturing and shading
- Specular highlights / D3D Bump mapping
- 8 Layer Multi-texturing support / 32-bit Z/Stencil buffer
- Internal True Color 32-bit ARGB internal rendering and layer blending
- Full tile blend buffer / Z load/ YUV and DXT textures
- Table and per vertex fog / Palletised textures
- 16-bit textures / 32-bit textures. n Point, bilinear, trilinear and anisotropic filtering
- Full range of OpenGL and D3D blend modes
- Alpha test / Full scene anti-aliasing
- Realistic Environments using 8-Layer Multitexturing
- Direct3D Environment Bump Mapping Supported
From looking at the specifications that are found on PowerColor's website, we find that a few important numbers are missing from the bunch: the fill-rate and the core/memory clock. Through some research, I have found that the KYRO core and memory both run at a cool 110MHz, which is very low, even when compared to the cool GeForce2 MX.
We must note that the Evil KYRO has only a 270MHz RAMDAC. Most of the popular cards we've seen lately have featured RAMDAC's of well-above 300MHz, but, in fact, the Evil KYRO's small, in comparison, 270MHz RAMDAC was able to produce a crisp and clear picture up to as high of a resolution as 1600x1200 @ 60Hz (as high as my monitor would go).
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