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Well S3 just announced the Savage2000 which is comparable to the GeForce256
but has a higher fill rate (700MB/s).

3Dfx will be sunk if they don't support 24 bit color, 24 zbuffer,
anti-aliasing and T&L.
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This week 3Dfx responded to Nvidia's GeForce press release by doing another
tap dance and song to destract the public away
from its own current and future product shortcomings.
What did 3Dfx use as a defense for their product? Yep, you guessed it, once
again 3Dfx is pushing fill rate to compensate for not having
Transform, Lighting, even 2048x2048 texture size hardware support.
3Dfx also accused the GeForce chip of being unbalanced because its geometry
engine is very powerful but the fill rate is slow compared to 3Dfx's Napalm.
Well, let's see now, 3Dfx's current offering is 2 years behind in standards,
only does 16bit color, 256x256 textures and they have absolutely no AGP
mastering support
but 3Dfx has the arrogance to be hypocritical in calling the GeForce
unbalanced!?!
You want to see unbalanced? Look at Napalm when it is released, without
Transform and Lighting hardware when Transform and Lighting as of
this week is the new leading edge video standard. A standard is something
you MUST have in order to best utilize what is offered to you.
With 3Dfx's Napalm, you now don't have a choice, you are stuck with no
Transform or Lighting hardware, but oh, hey, you will have a fast pixel
rate, if your CPU can keep up!!!
When will 3Dfx ever catch up? When will 3Dfx stop trying to distract the
public away from its lack of features and standards, in the name of fill
rate?
Seems like this week's parody on Ebay and other websites of the V4 card vs.
GeForce would give 3Dfx a hint of their lack of leading edge standards
and would also get them to see themselves as they appear to those who have
good eyesight and know better, but it is now apparent that not only is
3Dfx customers blind, ignorant and arrogant but 3Dfx has the same defects.
Like they say, birds of a feather, flock together.
3Dfx, when will you ever catch up technology, feature and standard wise?
You are spending way too much time on maximizing fill rate, in the name of
falling behind everyone else in everything else that matters.
Get some glasses and some intelligence 3Dfx, and humble yourselves for the
clowns you appear to those of us who can see and know better,
or get out of the market!