The new Triplex Xabre range consists of four chips, the Xabre 80, Xabre 200, Xabre 400 and Xabre 800 which correspond to the SiS 328, SiS 332, SiS 334 and SiS 336 respectively. All four render across four pipelines and 8 texels, double the performance of comparable nVIDIA GeForce products. Three of the four models in the Xabre series are also the world's first to support AGP 8X. And unlike nVIDIA's GeForce 4 MX and ATI's Radeon GPUs, the Xabre series boasts a hardware pixel shader and environment bump mapping. With hardware support for these features and Direct X 8.1, the Xabre series is able to deliver much higher image picture quality and speed. For a quick comparison of the features of the Xabre series compared to nVIDIA's GeForce 4 MX GPUs, please refer to the following table. Xaber 200 Xaber 400 Xaber 600 GeForc4MX420 GeForc4MX420 GeForc4MX420 AGP AGP8X AGP8X AGP8X AGP4X AGP4X AGP4X GPU Clock 200MHz 250MHz 300MHz 270MHz 270MHz 300MHz Memory Clock 400MHz 500MHz 600MHz 400MHz 400MHz 550MHz Render Engine 4 pipeline8 texels 4 pipeline8 texels 4 pipeline8 texels 2 pipeline4 texels 2 pipeline4 texels 2 pipeline4 texels DircetX8.1 Hardware Support Hardware Support Hardware Support Software Support Software Support Software Support SDRAM DDR DDR DDR DDR DDR DDR Memory Bandwidth 6.4GB 8GB 9.6GB 6.4GB 6.4GB 8.8GB In Triplex's own benchmark testing of Xabre series engineering samples, not only did the Xabre 400 product score much more highly than the equivalent nVIDIA GeForce product, (6228 compared to 5458), it also registered in four key areas that are not supported by the GeForce's hardware, namely: Game 4 Nature, environment bump mapping, pixel shader and advanced pixel shader. Triplex's testing has also shown that the Xabre series performs 30% better than Intel's 845G chipset for the Pentium 4. Product Pics @ VR-Zone Source: Triplex