This chip is presented by Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 64MB, AGP videocard.

Features:

• STM KYRO II chip, 175MHz clock rate, 128-bit engine;
• 64MB SDRAM memory in 8 Samsung 5ns microchips, 175MHz clock rate;
• Peak fill rate in the multitexturing mode is 350 megapixels/sec and 350 megatexels/sec.
• Tile architecture.

Overclocking is impossible.

KYRO II has recently appeared on the market, being the overclocked KYRO. The increased clock rate allows to compete not only with GeForce2 MX, but also with GeForce2 GTS. And as the price is on the level of GeForce2 MX, it increases the rating of these cards. All details are described in the review of this card.

On the 10th of August 2002 the latest drivers version from STM is 15.00.84 for Windows ME and XP.

The latest drivers are preferable due to fixed bugs and increased perfomance, but we also observe falloffs in some other tests.

I shall also note that real trilinear filtering is replaced by approximation at S3TC activation to reduce perfomance losses, but the approximation quality is rather high. Read all details in the SUMA Platinum K2 review.

You can compare screenshots with reference ones (NVIDIA GeForce3).

Games / Cards	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
PowerVR/STM KYRO II		-	-				-	-				-
NVIDIA GeForce3

Games / Cards	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
PowerVR/STM KYRO II						-				-
NVIDIA GeForce3

Games / Cards	25	26	27	28	29	30
PowerVR/STM KYRO II
NVIDIA GeForce3

Game list: 1. Return to Castle Wolfenstein 2. Unreal2 (alpha version) 3. Comanche4 4. Jedi Knight II Outcast 5. Morrowind 6. Colin McRAE Rally2 7. Red Faction 8. Rally Trophy 9. Sacrifice 10. Venom 11. Unreal Tournament 2003 DEMO 12. Real MYST 13. Blade of Darkness 14. Neverwinter Nights 15. 3DMark2001: Game1 16. 3DMark2001: Game2 17. 3DMark2001: Game3 18. 3DMark2001: Game4 19. 3DMark2001: Dot3 20. 3DMark2001: EMBM 21. 3DMark2001: Vertex Shaders 22. 3DMark2001: Pixel Shaders 23. Warcraft III 24. Soldier of Fortune II 25. Command and Conquer: Renegade 26. Max Payne 27. AquaNox 28. Serious Sam: The Second Encounter 29. IL2: Shturmovik 30. MoHAA Pity, but criticism exceeds stroke-out games. For example, Soldier of Fortune II produces these awful artefacts (screenshots above). the same happens in Morrowind. Andrey Vorobiev (Anvakams@ixbt.com) Alexander Kondakov (kondalex@ixbt.com) Evgeniy Zaycev (eightn@ixbt.com) Article navigation: blog comments powered by Disqus

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