June 1998 · Peripheral
S3 Savage3D (1998)
S3's first Savage chip, the debut of S3TC texture compression.
Poor yields limited supply. S3TC became DXT in DirectX and was built into Unreal Tournament and Quake III Arena.
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Facts
- Date
- June 1998
- Kind
- Peripheral: Graphics card
- Maker or publisher
- S3
- Platforms
- DOS, Windows
- Clock
- 100 to 120 MHz
- Feature
- S3TC texture compression
- Bus
- 64-bit
- Connection
- AGP, PCI
- Works with
- DOS, Windows
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