SAVAGE 2000 Spec: special thanks to S3 website for this patch of info!!!

Feature List

High-Performance 3D Acceleration

Fully integrated Transform and Lighting Engine (S3TL™)
8 source OpenGL compliant hardware lighting
Floating point triangle setup engine
Complete CPU load balancing capability
Fully OpenGL compliant, DX7 ready

Complete 3D Rendering Features

Sustained 2 multi-textured pixels/clock performance
Single-pass Quad-Texture™ engine
Up to 200MHz engine clock speeds
700M texels/s fill rate with dual/quad textures
Programmable blending of multiple textures
Hardware bump mapping
S3 texture compression (S3TC™)
True color rendering
Full scene anti-aliasing
Anisotropic filtering
8-bit stencil buffer
16/24/32-bit Z-buffer
Specular lighting and diffuse shading
Enhanced alpha blending modes
Range-based, vertex and table fog

High Quality Video Support Including DVD/DTV

High quality multi-tap up/down scalar
Third generation motion compensation design for
hardware-accelerated DVD playback
Subpicture blending and highlights
Fully compliant VIP 2.0 for all HDTV resolutions
Support for Microsoft DirectDraw7 HVA Interface
Multiple video windows for video conferencing
Streams Processor™ display up to 1600x1200
De-interlacing for display of interlaced content
Fully programmable hue, saturation, contrast, brightness,
and gamma controls
Multiple HDTV configurations supported via DMA host port
bus mastering
Digital port for lossless data connection to high quality
NTSC/PAL TV encoders

High Speed Memory Bus

Up to 200 MHz memory speeds
Up to 64 MByte frame buffer
128-bit memory interface supporting up to 3.2 GB/s memory
bandwidth
1Mx16, 2Mx32 or 4Mx16 SDRAMs
512Kx32 or 1Mx32 SGRAMs with block write support

Enhanced 2D Acceleration Features

Highly optimized 128-bit 2D graphics engine
Full featured with acceleration for BitBLT, rectangle fill, line
draw, polygon fill, panning/scrolling and hardware cursor
8, 16, 24, and 32 bpp mode acceleration

Flat Panel Desktop Monitor Support

DVI compliant
12/24-bit digital interface to flat panel encoders
Auto-expansion and centering for VGA text and graphics
modes
Support for all resolutions up to 1280x1024

Full Software Support

Windows 98/95 display drivers
Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 display drivers
Windows 3.x and OS/2 3.0/4.0 (Warp )
Linux display drivers
Direct3D, DirectDraw and DirectShow
OpenGL ICD for Windows 9x and Windows NT
Comprehensive SDK, utilities and ISV tools
ISV and bundling programs

Additional Features

350 MHz RAMDAC with gamma correction enables display
resolutions up to 2048x1536
I2C serial bus and DDC monitor communications
ACPI D0-D3 states and PCI power management
Parallel flash memory support
Full AGP 4x/2x, including sideband addressing and execute
mode
PCI 2.2 bus support including bus mastering
100% PC'99 compliant
31x31mm PBGA with 409 balls

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