3dfx Rampage rumored specs 2000-07-18 | posted by Guy Kazama | print
Alphanumeric has posted some rumored specs for the upcoming 3dfx Rampage Chipset due out this Christmas. This thing sounds like a monster - the high-end configuration supposedly may have 4 parallel processing video processors along with 4 T&L units! Holy cow!
Mid-range Dual Rampage + Dual T&L 0.18um production process 4 pipelines with 1pixel/1texel 200 - 250MHz core clock speed 200 MHz DDR memory 1.6 Gigapixel fill rate 150 million polygons/sec Hardware higher-order surfaces and curved surfaces 12.8Gb/sec memory bandwidth
High-end configuration with 4 Rampage + 4 T&L (8 chips) 3.2 Gigapixel fill rate 300 million polygons/sec 25.6GB/sec memory bandwidth |