Savage News heeft wat info gepost over een reeks videokaarten die gepowered moeten worden door 2 of 4 Savage4 chips. Met mooie van deze kaart zal niet op het gebied van de 3D performance liggen, maar op het gebied van de 2D. Aan deze kaarten kunnen namelijk 2 of 4 monitoren gehangen worden, afhankelijk van het aantal chippies:
Both the Pro 2 and Pro 4 have almost exact same specs. The only difference is the extra two savage4's and ports on the Pro 4. As you can see from the pictures (below) those boards are pretty big, at least a heatsink and fan is on there (and they don't need an external power supply). Some things shown in the specs are not operational. Anti-Aliasing will never work until S3 incorporates it into the drivers. Although ColorGraphic actually does some heavy modification in the reference driver's (unlike others who just put a company display app, and put they're name in it) it's probably to include the quad or dual monitor support. Hopefully I will have a review unit soon and I'll tell you how the quad or dual CPU's perform. I just hope it let's you use all the CPU's on one monitor, not just each CPU to each monitor port. Again if you get the card, and it uses S3TC or DXTC games, that 128MB of ram will last. Plus there is a fan so overclocking should be pretty easy. Predator Pro 4 AGP
[...] Also remember that every Savage4 based card has a 64-bit bus. This is inside the actual processor and cannot be modified by adding something extra. S3 must actually change the silicon. So with this 64-bit bus, even the quad CPU configuration will be handicapped. So if you want to see how the card would perform on a 128-bit bus, just switch the resolution to 800x600. This is not acceptable today unless you have a 15inch monitor or smaller, because a nVidia GeforceGTS can run games at 1024x768 with much higher frame rates. Even the S3 Savage2000 will probably smoke this configuration, and it cost less. If you look into the ColorGraphic website you will soon figure out that ColorGraphic provides drivers with no 3D Features. That's right. No OpenGL or Direct3D acceleration is available (yet), although it is in the specs. This can confuse many people (as it did me in the beginning) into buying the card only to find out that Quake3 can't find an OpenGL driver. There could be a possibility that by using S3's reference driver's you might get the acceleration (with also the possibility to lose all but one CPU). So as soon as I get one of these to benchmark and try out I will type up another article with all the numbers you may need.
Voor wie deze kaart interessant moet zijn is voor mij eigenlijk een raadsel: voor 3D performance moet je deze kaart duidelijk niet hebben, voor dualhead kan je waarschijnlijk goedkoper een Matrox kaart halen en als je perse 4 monitoren wilt aansluiten kan je waarschijnlijk beter en goedkoper 4 PCI kaartjes kopen...