And what a fine marriage it has been. The official specs of the Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 don't look all that impressive, but looks can be deceiving. The core and memory are synchronous, reminiscent of the Voodoo cards of old. The card features the blue PCB used on all of the recent Hercules graphic cards, and the Kyro II chip is actively cooled with a small orb cooler, also done in blue. In auto racing, there are several ways to make a car go fast.
Some people opt for a huge engine with lots of cubic inches for raw horsepower.
Others take smaller motors, and tweak them to get the maximum power. The feature most people talk about is the tile-rendering, but there is more to the Kyro II than hidden surface removal. We'll cover some of the more important features here, for those that want to sound intelligent at the next LAN party. Tile Rendering - Memory bottlenecks are the main obstacle with today's video cards. This is partly due to the fact that much of the available memory bandwidth is wasted rendering and texturing pixels that are not even visible on the screen.