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INNO3D S3 SAVAGE 2000 REVIEW
"Inno3D S3 Savage 2000 review also featuring the Videologic VividXS Kyro 2. Software used was:- 3dmark 2001 SE, GLexcess, Max Payne, Quake 2, Quake 3 Arena and Serious Sam."
 INNO3D SAVAGE 2000 : S3 Savage2000 controller, 128bit, 125mhz core, 143mhz memory, 64MB Sdram, 350MHz Ramdac and 4x AGP.
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• 2D Features:-
Highly Efficient 128-bit 2D-Graphics Engine
Full Featured with Acceleration for BitBLT
8-, 16-, and 32-bbp mode acceleration
• 3D Features:-
Dual-Pixel/Dual-Texture Pipeline
Single Pass Quad Texture Engine
Hardware Texture Compression(S3TC)
S3TL Transformation and Lighting
• Video Features:-
TV-Output (S-Video and Composite)
High Quality 16-tap up/down scaler
Motion Compensation Engine
Hardware Accelerated DVD Playback
DVD/MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 Playback
X and Y Interpolation
Fully Programmable Settings
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• Complete 3D Feature Set:-
Alpha-Blending
Anisotropic Filtering
Atmospheric Effects
Backface Culling
Bilinear and Trilinear MIP mapping
Bilinear filtering
Bump Mapping
Enhanced Alpha-blending Modes
Full Scene Anti-aliasing
Gouraud Shading
MPEG-2 Video Textures
Per-pixel and Range-based Fog
Perspective Correction
Procedural Textures
Reflection Mapping
Shadows
Single Cycle Trilinear Filtering
Single Pass Quad Texture Engine
Specular Lighting/Diffuse Shading
Sprite Anti-aliasing
Stencil Buffer 8-bit
Strips and Fans
Subpixel Precision
Support for Up to 8 Light Sources
Texel Engine Z-buffering 32-bit
Texture Mapping
Transparency
Triangle Setup Engine
Trilinear Filtering
Vertex and Table Fog
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| NAME |
CHIPSET |
GPU SPEED |
MEM SPEED |
COST (UK/US) |
| INNO3D SAVAGE 2000 |
S3 SAVAGE 2000 |
125Mhz |
143MHz SDR |
£39 ($36) |
| VIDEOLOGIC VIVIDXS |
POWERVR KYRO2 |
175Mhz |
175Mhz SDR |
£59 ($49) |
GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION
| PROCESSOR |
AMD ATHLON XP 1700 |
| VIDEO CARD |
INNO3D SAVAGE 2000 64MB AGP |
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VIDEOLOGIC VIVIDXS 64MB AGP |
| S3 DRIVER |
2K_WIN9X_95114.ZIP (v9.51.14) |
| POWERVR DRIVER |
VIVXS37179W9X.EXE (v1.05.15.84) |
| MOTHERBOARD |
ECS K7S5A SIS735 REV3.1 |
| MEMORY |
CRUCIAL 512MB PC133 DDR |
| OPERATING SYSTEM |
WINDOWS 98 SE |
| DIRECTX VERSION |
v8.1 |
3DMARK 2001 SE
 | 51 |
 | 23 |
| 44 |
| 22 |
| 71 |
| 25 |
VIDEOLOGIC VIVIDXS INNO3D S3 SAVAGE 2000 |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS
1024x768 Resolution
32Bit color
D3D Software T&L
Antialiasing Disabled
Double Frame Buffer
Compressed Texture Format
24Bit Z-Buffer Depth
COMMENT - "3dmark 2001 SE is a very demanding benchmark and the Savage 2000 didn't make 30fps which is considered by many to be the limit of playability (if this was a "real" game). The Kyro 2 however had no such problems and the Lobby score of 71fps was impressive."
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3DMARK 2001 SE
| 19 |
| 7 |
| 19 |
| 11 |
| 25 |
| 10 |
VIDEOLOGIC VIVIDXS INNO3D S3 SAVAGE 2000 |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS
1024x768 Resolution
32Bit color
D3D Software T&L
Antialiasing Disabled
Double Frame Buffer
Compressed Texture Format
24Bit Z-Buffer Depth
COMMENT - "3dmark 2001 SE is now using a high detail setting and you can clearly see the negative result it's having on both video cards. The Savage 2000 and Kyro 2 both fail to reach 30fps, if 3dmark was a game then both of these video cards would be totally unplayable."
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MAX PAYNE
| 94 |
| 48 |
| 92 |
| 41 |
| 78 |
| 19 |
VIDEOLOGIC VIVIDXS INNO3D S3 SAVAGE 2000 |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Shooting Alex Benchmark
Normal Quality Setting
Trilinear Filtering
Fogging Enabled
Sounds Enabled
Task Switching Disabled
Triple Screen Buffers Enabled
COMMENT - "Max Payne is quite a demanding game, good performance here is far more important than 3dmark scores. The Savage 2000 is playable at 640x480 and 800x600 however there was some texture problems which spoiled it's good performance. The Kyro 2 puts in a great performance at lower resolutions but slips back a bit at 1024 but 78fps is playable."
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