Tweakotine schrijft: "Kyle van HardOCP heeft een preview gemaakt van de Kyro 3D kaart. Het mooie van deze kaart is dat hij alleen de pixels rendert'' die zichtbaar zijn. Daardoor worden geheugen bandbreedte problemen zoals bij de GeForce2 voorkomen. Deze beta kaart, die een voortzetting is van de Power VR 3D technologie, draait op maar 110 MHz met SDRAM en kan daarmee de concurentie aan met een GeForce DDR .":
I think my recent experience with the Elsa Gladiac pushed me back to reality on the prices of Vid Cards. I wanted one to play with and we were not getting a freebie this time, so we simply went out and bought one. We spent US$386 for the card. It can be found cheaper now, but not the first week it was out. It was shelling out all that hard-earned green that kinda gave me a kick in the teeth, or slapped me back to reality rather. I admit that over the last few years we have come to be spoiled by receiving all the free review hardware that comes our way. There are a whole hell of a lot folks in the world that simply cannot afford the top-end video cards, much less upgrade every time the hot new thing comes along. Hell, tweaking out Intel CPUs for a few extra MHz, because we are poor bastards, is why we got started here at the Hard|OCP!
Anyway, there are still some folks out there that seem to care about the “poor bastards” in the world. These folks happen to be ST Micro and Imagination. ST Micro is a huge chip manufacturer capable of cranking out millions of chipsets. Imagination, maybe you remember them as Video Logic, is a technology company that has brought newer ways rendering 3D graphics. While some of their technology is not exactly new, it has certainly been improved upon and made much more efficient.
[...] Something that really gets me excited about the Power VR 3D technology is this. What do we get if we apply Tile Based Rendering to a 200MHz chipset? Maybe we will see that come to pass but it did not sound to be happening any time soon. I would certainly like to see Imagination and ST Micro make a run for the top spot though.
Deze kaart wordt waarschijnlijk dus zeker interessant voor de budget gamer en als ze het goed doen vegen de opvolgers van deze kaart de vloer aan met de kaarten van 3dfx en NVidia als die niet op tijd een zelfde techniek implenteren in hun kaarten.