PowerVR Kyro Series: Better than it really should be

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Published on August 14, 2020 12:00:10 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXtHgKSL0WY

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View Vlask's video on the PowerVR PCX2 here: https://youtu.be/M7dxTmI1SyI
Special thanks to Fouquin for lending his voice and a picture of his Kyro 2 PCI for this project.

In this video we take a look at Imagination Technologies' final desktop graphics card on the desktop PC market with the PowerVR Kyro and Kyro 2.

Platform specs:
Athlon XP 3000+ (Barton) @ 2.1GHz
512MB PC3200 @ 333MHz
Shuttle AK35GT2/R (VIA KT333)
Aureal Vortex 2
Western Digital WD800 80GB HDD
Windows 98SE Unofficial SP3

The cards:
Hercules 3D Prophet 4000XT 32MB (115MHz core/memory)
Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 64MB (175MHz core/memory)
Radeon VE 32MB DDR (166MHz core; 333MHz memory)
Radeon 32MB SDR (166MHz core/memory)
Radeon 64MB DDR (183MHz core; 366MHz memory)
Radeon 7500 64MB (290MHz core; 460MHz memory)
GeForce2 MX200 32MB (175MHz core; 166MHz memory)
GeForce2 MX400 64MB (200MHz core; 175MHz memory)
GeForce2 GTS 32MB (200MHz core; 333MHz memory)
GeForce2 Ti 64MB (simulated) (250MHz core; 400MHz memory)
Voodoo5 5500 64MB (166MHz core/memory)

Drivers:
PowerVR Kyro Series - Driver v2.01
ATI Radeon Series - Catalyst 4.1
NVIDIA GeForce Series - Forceware 45.23

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