Canopus Corp - Rendition Card Claims ???

Could someone from Intergraph please comment on the claims Canopus Corp is making about their Rendition based card. I found these claims at http://www.canopuscorp.com Specifically I would like to know how they can claim that their card is 20-30% faster than other rendition based cards, and does 1024x768 true color. I thought all these cards were the same. Here's an excerpt from their press release: Killer Graphics Accelerator The Rendition? Vrit?-based TOTAL3D? graphics accelerator creates a new quality and technology standard for other 3D, Direct3D, and SVGA computer game focused graphics card makers to aim for, offering performance 20%-30% higher than other Vrit?-based graphics cards. [ The TOTAL3D? Vrit? card is a 4MB PCI accelerator that does 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768 true color, and 1152x864 and 1240x1024 high color at non-interlaced, flicker free resolutions. ] "The Rendition Vrit has been recognized since its release earlier this year as the best 3D graphics processor available to the high end consumer," explained Roger Hounshell, Vice President of Canopus Corporation. "Its programmable RISC architecture for the front end, 30 million texture-mapped, bilinear filtered pixels per second throughput, and full function 3D will keep it a winner for some time to come." "But lately its been getting an undeserved reputation for slow 2D," Hounshell continued. "We knew Vrit had more in it than others were getting out of it; so we built Total3D to show what Vrit is capable of. Producing over 30 Winmarks at 1024x768x8 bit in 75Hz non-interlaced modes on Pentium?166MHz computers, TOTAL3D more than meets the industry's expectations for 2D Windows acceleration. We didn't even need to use a GDI hook to get this performance." "We are very pleased with the introduction of the Total3D graphics card from Canopus,' Jay Eisenlohr, Rendition's Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, said. "They have chosen to take further advantage of some of the additional features of the Rendition Vrit architecture that I'm sure will electrify gamers and mainstream users alike." "The gamers we have let see this early, running side by side with our competition, are calling Total3D a 'killer graphics accelerator,'" said Jim Terzian, Director of Marketing at Canopus. "I think Total3D will give the competition a new definition for what 'killer' really means."

I believe Canopus and Sierra are both using newer/better optimized Windows drivers for their Verite cards. Canopus developed the new drivers for themselves and Sierra. RacerX Dave Worley

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> = > Could someone from Intergraph please comment on the claims Canopus Corp= > is making about their Rendition based card. I found these claims at > http://www.canopuscorp.com Specifically I would like to know how they > can claim that their card is 20-30% faster than other rendition based > cards, and does 1024x768 true color. I thought all these cards were the= > same. > = > Here's an excerpt from their press release: > = > Killer Graphics Accelerator > = > The Rendition=AE V=E9rit=E9=99-based TOTAL3D=99 graphics accelerator cr=

eates a new > quality and technology > standard for other 3D, Direct3D, and SVGA computer game focused graphic= s > card makers to aim for, offering > performance 20%-30% higher than other V=E9rit=E9=99-based graphics card= s. [ > The TOTAL3D=99 V=E9rit=E9=99 card is > a 4MB PCI accelerator that does 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768 true > color, and 1152x864 and > 1240x1024 high color at non-interlaced, flicker free resolutions. ] > = > "The Rendition V=E9rit=E9 has been recognized since its release earlier= this

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> year as the best 3D graphics processor > available to the high end consumer," explained Roger Hounshell, Vice > President of Canopus Corporation. "Its > programmable RISC architecture for the front end, 30 million > texture-mapped, bilinear filtered pixels per second > throughput, and full function 3D will keep it a winner for some time to= > come." > = > "But lately its been getting an undeserved reputation for slow 2D," > Hounshell continued. "We knew V=E9rit=E9 had > more in it than others were getting out of it; so we built Total3D to > show what V=E9rit=E9 is capable of. Producing > over 30 Winmarks at 1024x768x8 bit in 75Hz non-interlaced modes on > Pentium=99166MHz computers, > TOTAL3D more than meets the industry's expectations for 2D Windows > acceleration. We didn't even need to > use a GDI hook to get this performance." > = > "We are very pleased with the introduction of the Total3D graphics card= > from Canopus,' Jay Eisenlohr, > Rendition's Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, said.= > "They have chosen to take further > advantage of some of the additional features of the Rendition V=E9rit=E9= > architecture that I'm sure will electrify > gamers and mainstream users alike." > = > "The gamers we have let see this early, running side by side with our > competition, are calling Total3D a 'killer > graphics accelerator,'" said Jim Terzian, Director of Marketing at > Canopus. "I think Total3D will give the > competition a new definition for what 'killer' really means."