Specifications & features

• 115 MHz core clock
• 115 MHz memory clock (linked to core's frequency)
• 32MB SDRAM
• Effective fill rates increase with 3D complexity 
• Over 20 million polygons per second (peak)
• Flat and Gouraud shading
• Perspective texturing and shading
• Specular highlights
• D3D Environment Mapped Bump Mapping
• DirectX Texture Compression
• 8 layer multi-texturing support
• 32-bit Z/Stencil buffer
• Internal True Color
• Full tile blend buffer
• Z load/store mode
• Tabled and per vertex fog
• Palletized textures
• 16-bit & 32-bit textures
• YUV & DXT textures
• Point, bilinear, trilinear, and anisotropic filtering
• Full range of D3D and OpenGL blend modes
• Pixel-perfect full scene anti-aliasing

As mentioned before, the card is actually clocked at a mere 115MHz core/memory frequency. When compared to the Geforce2 MX which has a 175MHz core and 166 MHz memory frequency, the KYRO doesn't seem like much of a competition. Then again, the KYRO architecture is unlike the Geforce or any other video card for that matter. PowerVR believes that by using less brute force, and by incorporating tile-based rendering which is a much more efficient rendering method than the conventional method used by their competitors, they have gained a considerable advantage in terms of performance and features. Let us examine what the logic behind PowerVR's claim is.