Today, we received news about another DirectX9 graphic card. The manufacturer is SiS and the card is Xabre II. The specifications of the card looks almost to good to be true, so take it for what it is: unconfirmed rumours.
- 0.13 micron manufacturing
- 8 pixel pipelines with 2 TMUs each
- 350 MHz core / 1 Ghz memory
- HSR-optimizations
- 80-85 million transistors
An 8×2 architecture with 350 Mhz core sounds very promising. We haven’t heard about the memory bus, but we assume it’s 128 bit. NH has tested the Xabre 400, and one of our complaints were that the drivers contained pretty severe optimizations that lowered the image quality to get better performance. On a card with these specifications, this won’t be “needed” so we really hope that SiS have fixed this.
Read more here.
Now we’re only waiting for Matrox and Trident to give us some news, and we have had some of the most interesting weeks in the graphic card market since Voodoo 1 was released.
