Number Nine cites a 266MHz Pentium II as the minimum for DVD playback, and a 333MHz one as the optimum. Also, we support multiple types of memory, as well as multiple memory densiities, as well as a programmable memory latency controller. However, there has been one issue that has confused people, and I want to thank Tom Browne of S3 Planet for clearing that up. The press release mentions tiling. No, the Savage 3D has a traditional architecture.
Tiling refers to the fact that it writes to memory in blocks, instead of pixel by pixel.
This is done by other traditional architecture chips, too.