Gutspiller
08-12-2002, 10:50 AM
GD: What makes Trident think it can compete in the price category its shooting for (under 100 dollars)?
Le: Our key intellectual property strength is in our ability to design top-of-the-line 3D graphics functionality and performance using a dramatically smaller number of transistors as compared to the competition. For example, 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.
GamersDepot.com (http://www.gamersdepot.com/interviews/trident/xp4/001.htm)
Le: Our key intellectual property strength is in our ability to design top-of-the-line 3D graphics functionality and performance using a dramatically smaller number of transistors as compared to the competition. For example, 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.
GamersDepot.com (http://www.gamersdepot.com/interviews/trident/xp4/001.htm)