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Glaze3D: Yet Another 3D Chipset

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the my-voodoo2-is-looking-old dept.

Dixie_Flatline writes "This chipset looks pretty cool to me. I'm suprised that it hasn't shown up on slashdot before now, based on it's immense hoopyness. And it's got Linux support...and it hasn't even been released yet. Go here. " Basically this thing claims to crush everything else on the market. If it makes for better games, I'm all for it.

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  1. history repeats itself by Vector7 · · Score: 3

    This is interesting, this group had a chip called the Pyramid3D a few years ago that never made it onto the market because its performance wasn't competative (although it did have a few neat features like antialiasing). Anyway, they say it won't be shipping until the first half of 2000, which could mean at least 6 months from now and likely more, and by then the performance their claimed 3x current performance may not seem as great, as TNT3 and who knows what else will be out before then. It could be another case of too little, too late.

    Interestingly, they are using embedded DRAM, the same technology Rendition is supposedly using in their next-generation chip (if they ever release one).

    Anyway, it looks like a cool chip, provided it has a robust OpenGL implementation for X.