Jetway
Wonder 4000 Savage4 Pro 32MB SDRAM review
- by Louie
October 20, 1999
At first I was apprehensive
in buying this card. Jetway was not widely known for quality.
Being a Taiwanese company, it is considered to be an OEM brand.
Being the cheapskate that I am, I bought it J. There are actually
three versions of the Wonder 4000. There are LT, GT and PRO
versions of the Savage. Only the LT comes with SGRAM.
Like all Savage4-based cards, the
Wonder 4000 has lots of
features (I wonder which ones are disabled by S3’s drivers?).
BUS TYPE: 64bit
AGP 2X Side Bands 133Mhz Bus
Chipset: S3 Savage4
397
Memory Size: 32MB
High performance accelerator
with 2D/3D Video Accelerator
- Floating point triangle
setup engine
- Single
cycle 3D architecture
- 8M triangles/second
setup engine
- 128-bit
rendering pipeline
- 140M
pixels/second trilinear fill rate
- Full
AGP 4X/2X, including sideband addressing and execute mode
- Microsoft
DX6 texture compression
- High
quality DVD video playback
3D Rendering Features
- Single-pass multiple
texture
- Hardware
bump mapping (oh really now?)
- Full
scene anti-aliasing (I thought T-buffer is going to be the first
to do this?)
- Anisotropic
filtering
- 8-bit
stencil buffer
- Single
cycle trilinear filtering
- Specular
lighting and diffuse shading
- MPEG-2
video texture
- 16 or
24 bit Z buffering
- Sprite
anti-aliasing, reflection mapping, texture morphing, shadows, procedural
textures and atmospheric
effect
Motion Video
- High Quality up/down
scalar
- Planar
to packed format conversion
- Motion
compensation for full speed DVD playback
- Hardware
subpicture blending and highlights
- Multiple
video windows for video conferencing
- Contrast,
hue, saturation and brightness controls
- Standard
Feature Connector for external video stream input
- Independent
Color Adjustment
2D Acceleration Features
- Highly optimized
128-bit graphics engine/270Mhz RAMDAC, resolutions up to 1920x1440
- Full
featured 2D engine for acceleration of BitBLT, Rectangle fill, line
draw, polygon fill, panning/scrolling
and hardware cursor
Ok,
that was long and boring. Just look at all the specs listed
above. I’m not sure which
settings are disabled by the S3 drivers. The card runs at a
default speed of 110/125 mhz. The
onboard SDRAM is rated at 8ns. The card comes with a fan and
a heatsink attached to it.
Installation went on without a hitch. I removed my ASUS drivers
and rebooted. Then I installed
Fachman’s 1.2 tweaked driver since upon inspection, the drivers from
the cd are old reference
drivers (.03 if I am not mistaken). I restarted the computer
again and ran all the games I had in
my computer. It ran Quake 2 and Q3Test smoothly.
No TV-Out for
this card, it's OEM!
enough
with the crap, let's get to the benchmarks!
