Anyone have any info on or even herd of....

[vpr]

The KYRO PowerVR Series 3 Cards?

I happened to browse over to PowerVR's sight because I was interested to
see if they were going to come out with a new video card, and saw that
the PowerVR Series 3 - KYRO was being released, I continued on to KYRO's
main page and found 2 companies that have PowerVR Series 3 Kyro cards
released. And 1 company that has a press release out on a Kyro based
card. They are as follows:


Inno3d announces 3D Accelerator based on KYRO? Graphics Processor
http://www.inno3d.com/kyro_press.htm
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Video Logic's entry - looks to be the best:
http://www.videologic.com/ProductInfo/Vivid.htm
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Power Color's enter - never herd of them before, who knows
http://www.powercolor.com.tw/products/gamecard/vga_Kyro.htm

The Kyro technology looks very promising and more information about it
can be found at: http://www.kyro.st.com

How do these cards stack up against the likes of Nvidia's cards, ATI's Radeon, and 3dfx's Voodoo 5/6

Thanks,
Vpr

 

[Tonec]

too little too late for Kyro

 

[fodd3r]

they card is a low budget card, well it's suppose to be it's competition is the mx and radeon 32 meg sdr. performance is about there; however, it's framerate are likely due to be a bit smoother and it's image quality is quite nice. unfortunately, it's rather laughable clock rate leaves much to be desired. the card is a bit much for the price. also i've heard of possible driver issues.

if you're into ocing check your local stores for one --remember you shouldn't be paying more than a mx or radeon-- throw down a better fan/hs on the gpu and try to clock it up. i've heard the default clock is at 125/125. the memory is rated for operation 143, so the chip quality and heat --.25 micron process-- should be the limiting factor.