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Trident Back From the Dead
FunkyMonkey writes "It seems that Trident is trying to pull a Matrox and resurrect themselves from
the 3D video card grave yard. AnandTech
posted a Trident
XP4 Preview today that has some interesting information on Trident's latest
stab at the graphics market. The company is claiming 80% the performance of the
GeForce 4 TI 4600 at a price tag of less than $100 USD including DX 9 support.
How? A 0.13 micron process and only 30 million transistors thanks to pipeline
resource sharing. "
In breaking news, market fluff has been found to have super-conductive capabilites.
This substance, also known as corporate BS (cBS2) is available almost anywhere where products are sold. Due to its ready availability and near-infinite supply, specialists are looking into its computing usages.
Marketing fluff has long been known to transfer information at a very great rate, often causing the specs of a product to arrive before the product itself is created. This, using the theory of relativity, means that the cBS2 is transfering information at a rate greater than the speed of light, making it the fastest transfer medium that has been found up to this point.
With my dying breath, I curse Zoidberg!
yes i can. Their old 256K cards, upgradable to 512K had such a slow memory/DAC combination that the frequency required to support the card was below that of almost any monitor available on the market at the time.
I choked when I had to replace the card. Replaced it with an ET4000 card. (Only problem with Et4000 was its allergy to PCI-ISA bridge chipsets.).
For an ISA card it was damn fast.
(Tridents response to me when I asked about the frequency problem was 'Go buy a new, 1Meg video card'. I did... it just wasn't a trident.)
"HEY KIDS!! Now with GL_NV_OCCLUSION_QUERY and GL_NV_VERTEXT_ARRAY_RANGE2 support!"