0.15micron manufacturing technology; Up to 300MHz working frequency; 4 pixel pipelines with 2 TMUs on each; Lays up to 4 textures per pass, up to 2 textures per clock; Supports Emboss, EMBM, Dot3 mapping techniques; Supports cubic maps and volumetric textures; S3TC/DXTC texture compression; Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing via supersampling for 2 and 4 subpixels (2x and 4x); Supports Pixel Shaders ver. 1.3 (DirectX 8.1); Third generation T&L VLIW unit; Supports up to 128MB of SDRAM/DDR SDRAM graphics memory with 64bit or 128bit bus width; AGP 1x, 2x, 4x and 8x (AGP 3.0); AGP type auto-detect (AGP 1.0, 2.0 or 3.0).
"Third generation T&L VLIW unit; "
Thats just so fuking ghey, T&L is useless, unless you have a shitty slow CPU (that doesnt have SSE) and dont plan on playing games that use D3D 9 as it will no longer be supported by D3D
whats wrong with T&L? it doesn't degrade the gpu's performance it just adds a little bit, OR nothing at all, but as long as there is no negative effect to the visual quality or performance than i don't see where your argument lies...?
Giants: CItizen Kabuto makes use of cards with a T&L engine giving them greater performance than that of non-T&L vid cards...
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plus the card looks damn good for an el-cheapo video card...
The only time T&L is worth having is if you have a CPU that doesnt have SSE (which means you badly need an upgrade :))
T&L was really just a big flop and was basically just another thorn in the side of games programmers as they had to constantly update to prodive support both for the new versions as well as the old version.
The only real thing that T&L was useful for was to give you an extraboost in points for 3D Mark and for Nvidia to crap on saying they have a whole bunch of features.
Those graphics card producers that knew what they were doing, knew better than to incorporate T&L into their cards, and now those companies (and their customers who purchased the cards who were laughed at by those with cards that had T&L) are laughing :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
T&L is only good on Radeons or P10, nothing else. Its a waste of GPU real-estate, make room for better things such as a better memory controller, T-Buffer, M-Buffer or Hyper-Z :wink: