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new GPU's from S3
William Henning - Friday, February 15th, 2008 | 1:06PM (PST)


New low cost DirectX 10.1 GPU's for laptops and SFF pc's

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Today S3 Graphics announced the new Chrome 400 series of GPU's for portable and energy efficient systems.

The Chrome 400 features:

  • 65nm process by Fujitsu
  • DirectX 10.1 support
  • "ChromotionHD" HD video playback at 1080p
  • supports H.264, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, VC-1, WMV-HD and AVS
  • "PowerWise" power management for lowered energy use
  • PCIe 2.0 support
  • HDCP, HDMI, dual-link DVI, Display Port support

The press release did not state if it supported S3's "MultiChrome" SLI/CrossFire like multi-GPU setup; nor did it give any 3D performance numbers. I guess we will have to wait until cards are out there and people bench them.

Source: Press Release

Section: Video Cards

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February 16th, 2008 6:20AM(PST)
THM
At the moment, the specifications of GPU are quite likeable, but it will be out-of-date within six or nine months later!!! That's just the ugly phenomenon of computer graphics cards and no need to mention their intention of money making out of nothing!!! Shame on the computer graphics cards developers!! May God curse them!!!
February 16th, 2008 2:53PM(PST)
iamjoe56
Would this run on a Desktop? I saw nothing that indicated it, though I am curiois.
February 16th, 2008 3:31PM(PST)
VeGiTAX2
The chrome series has been a running product for SFF pc's and laptops over the past years. You will probably be able to find one for a desktop in a few months but the performance numbers wont be anything crazy.
February 16th, 2008 9:13PM(PST)
iamjoe56
Anything is better than my 6150 LE.
February 16th, 2008 9:55PM(PST)
VeGiTAX2
Actually no, S3 is very much a value market brand in many cases, most often coming in on par with integrated chipset offerings like what Intel dishes out at times which is basically where your 6150 kinda falls in at since the 6100 and 6200 often found themselves integrated into motherboards down the road.
February 16th, 2008 10:17PM(PST)
iamjoe56
The Emachines we have our Wireless card running on use a 6100 Integrated card. >_> Are those any better than the 6150 LE or what?
February 16th, 2008 11:03PM(PST)
VeGiTAX2
Nah it's about the same, the LE is probably overclocked a bit more. Possibly a few extra pipelines but thats about it.

Unfortunately S3 dropped out of the high end market a while ago, they still do chase the tails of the industry but it's not like one would hope. :/
February 17th, 2008 6:59AM(PST)
DeathMonkey
It'd be quite nice if they could create some more competition for ATI and nVidia in the high end market but seems unlikely that they could go back to doing that.
February 17th, 2008 4:27PM(PST)
Derek
Hmm Let see some BENCHMARKS !!!!

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