Nitro 3200 Announced
July 1998 keeps moving, and today the headline is simple: Nitro 3200 Announced. announced its new Nitro 3200 2-D/3-D multimedia accelerator with high quality MPEG-2 DVD support.
July 1998 keeps moving, and today the headline is simple: Nitro 3200 Announced. announced its new Nitro 3200 2-D/3-D multimedia accelerator with high quality MPEG-2 DVD support.
Based on the S3 Savage3D graphics chip, the Nitro 3200 uses S3TC, the only Microsoft-endorsed texture compression technology for DirectX. By compressing data, S3TC enables the Nitro 3200 to deliver 4X AGP performance on 2X AGP systems to deliver 4X and effectively doubles the board’s frame buffer size by allowing more textures to be stored. For PC players watching every demo, patch, driver and announcement right now, this is one more thing to keep on the board.