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    - AMD Phenom X4 9950 BE & 9350e Review
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    • Full AGP 4x, including sideband addressing and execute mode
    • SMA memory architecture
    • 2 to 32 MB frame buffer using system memory
    • 300 MHz RAMDAC
    • 2D/3D resolutions up to 1920x1440
    • Single cycle 128-bit 3D architecture
    • 8M triangles/second setup engine
    • 140M pixels/second trilinear fill rate
    • S3 DX7 texture compression (S3TC)
    • 128-bit 2D graphics engine
    • Single-pass multiple textures
    • 32-bit true color rendering
    • 2K x 2K textures
    • Hardware DVD motion compensation
    • Digital port for NTSC/PAL TV encoders
    • 12-bit digital interface for Flat Panel encoders
    • Support for all digital resolutions up to 1280x1024
    • Digital Visual Interface (DVI) 1.0 compliant

    The Savage4 video of the PM133 chipset is a highly capable but low-end solution. The stand alone Savage4 video was never known as a speed demon, and the internal video is slower, partially due to clock speed and partially due to the SMA architecture, where main memory is shared with video memory, which slows performance. On the bright side, the Savage4 video has a full list of features, including 32-bit color, texture compression, a digital out (if the motherboard manufacturer wants to use it), and 2K by 2K textures.





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