The MIRAGE ULTRA 3D AGP video card, built on a hybrid 0.18/0.22 micron manufacturing process, is a 12-million transistor 3D accelerator from S3 with circuitry for hardware transformation and lighting. MIRAGE ULTRA 3D is the graphics board that is based on the SAVAGE 2000, which is default clocked at 125 MHz.
Specifications
- Support for Fixed frequency monitors from 48 khz to 102 khz
- Supports
Dos, VGA and Bios power up mode on virtually any monitor (fixed
Frequency and Multi Frequency)
- Supports Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux,.......
- High-performance 3D Acceleration
8 source OpenGL compliant hardware lighting
Floating point triangle setup engine
Fully OpenGL compliant, Direct X ready
Complete 3D rendering Features
Single-pass Quad-Texture engine
700M texel/s fill rate with dual/quad textures
Programmable blending of multiple textures
S3 texture compression
True color rendering
Anisotrophic filtering
16/24/32-bit Z-buffer
Third generation motion compensation design for hardware-accelerated DVD playback
Sub picture blendingand highlights
Support for Microsoft DirectDraw7 HVA Interface
Streams Processor display up to 1600x1200
Support for AGP Bus 2X/4X Mode
S3TC + MeTal = DeTail
For some time now, S3 has been evangelizing texture compression as the future of PC graphics, and for good reason. Using compression, high-resolution textures can be easily incorporated into a game, such as Unreal Tournament, with little performance hit. The results are very pretty indeed, as we have illustrated below.
MIRAGE ULTRA 3D
GeFORCE 256
