Trident Microsystems talks about a new GPU they have coming out that"s poised to rattle the market - Aimed at the budget consumer, their new line of XP4 GPUs will soon be on the streets and offer full DirectX 9 hardware support for under $100.00.
The XP4 T3 contains only 30 million transistors and running at 300MHz. ATI"s Radeon 9700 has 110 million transistors !!! And yet, the XP4 T3 will achieve 70 percent of the Radeon 9700 in performance. As the result, the XP4 T3 graphics board with 128MB of video memory only costs $99 compared to $399 for a card based on the Radeon 9700. We believe that giving up only 30 percent of performance in exchange for 75 percent price reduction is a compelling trade-off for 97 percent of the 3D graphics users.
The card will hit the stores in October 2002.