Vivid XS (Kyro II) annunciata

Vivid XS: HARDCORE GRAPHICS ACCELERATOR £85 32MB Add In Board Provides TV-Out, Segment leading price and performance

VideoLogic Systems - a division of Imagination Technologies - has today announced the VideoLogic Vivid!XS, its first performance graphics add-in card based on the new PowerVR KYRO II(tm) graphics processor. The 32MB Vivid!XS will ship in April 2001, with a RRP price of £85 ex. VAT.

The VideoLogic Vivid!XS is a fully featured, high performance graphics card for gamers at an affordable price with blazing games performance, future proof technology, full support for industry-standard game APIs like Microsoft® Direct3D(tm) and OpenGL(tm), a fast 128-bit 2D engine, hardware video playback, TV output and DVD decode acceleration.

Kevin Dale, president, VideoLogic Systems, says: "Vivid!XS is a high-performance successor to the award winning Vivid! graphics board. For high-intensity gaming Vivid!XS provides segment leading performance at a very affordable cost with an enormous effective fill rate, intense scene complexity and all with the dazzling visual quality of full 32-bit rendering."

Vivid!XS features stunning 3D effects including environment mapped bump mapping, 8-layer multi-texturing, DXTC texture compression, pixel-perfect full scene anti-aliasing (FSAA), superior colour precision via 32-bit Internal True Colour(tm), alpha blending, advanced texture sampling and filtering modes and specular highlights.

Vivid!XS' PowerVR technology thrives on complex 3D games - its effective fillrate actually increasing as the games gets more complex, drawing increasingly 'deep' and complete 3D worlds. At an average image depth complexity of four (typical of new 3D games) Vivid!XS provides an effective fill rate of 1.4gigapixels per second. Vivid!XS includes 32mb of high performance SDRAM memory and its PowerVR KYRO II graphics processor has support for resolutions up to 2048 x 1536, 175MHz clock-speed, 2X AGP support, and over 12 million fully featured polygons per second.

Compatibility and Support Vivid! has full support for both Microsoft DirectX 7 and OpenGL1.1 3D graphics APIs. Vivid! fully meets the requirements of PC 99A. Vivid! ships with fully optimized driver support for Windows 9x, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000. Direct3D HAL and OpenGL ICD are fully supported.

Other Vivid! features include a fast 128-bit 2D engine, hardware video playback and DVD decode assistance, AGP 2.1 Bus Master Interface supporting AGP 1x, 2x and 4x with SBA for host based textures, a 128-bit SG-RAM/SD-RAM interface and integrated palette DAC