S3 Dual-GPU Card Competes with ATI Eyefinity

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[citation][nom]anamaniac[/nom]I bet they'll game just as well as Matrox cards. =)Sad to see that though they try, there's not a damned thing Via makes worth buying...[/citation]
I dunno, I would love a few of their Artigo PicoITX kits to run some of my servers on. Would be much lower wattage and work well since most don't need huge CPU power, least not for what I do with them.
 
[citation][nom]demonhorde665[/nom]well i doubt it wil run games very well , i'd be really impressed if it ran games even as good as a single GF 9600 gt or Radeon 3850-3870 (the 9600 gt really falls between these two cards performance) if S3 could pull that off not 0only would it look like a vaible HTPC option but might also work as a budget gamer card provided it supports at least DX 10 tech[/citation]
Well their Chrome 550 GTX has DX 10.1 support, performs better then a Radeon 4350 (not great but is aimed at HTPC) and uses very low CPU resources when decoding HD video, VC-1 decoding, had DisplayPort, HDMI and DVI ports built in. Their cards aren't great gamer cards but for HTPCs they are damned good and low priced too.
 
I welcome competition, but, if it's anything like the products I've seen sporting the S3 logo, we can't expect much when it comes to gaming. We'll just have to wait and see.
 
I am actually looking forward to seeing this card and they are on the right path to making decent gpus that can compete in the low end and hopefully midrange with in the year or so. They do try their best unlike Intel in the past while SiS is a total joke. Trident is still around 😱 but only making gpus for HD TVs. Matrox has it's niche but needs to come down in price. Nvidia needs to go ahead and go for the 28nm process instead of the 40nm which is more problems than it is worth even for ATI. Intel well you could do better but no one really wants you to monopolize this segment of the industry.
 
[citation][nom]nforce4max[/nom]I am actually looking forward to seeing this card and they are on the right path to making decent gpus that can compete in the low end and hopefully midrange with in the year or so. They do try their best unlike Intel in the past while SiS is a total joke. Trident is still around but only making gpus for HD TVs. Matrox has it's niche but needs to come down in price. Nvidia needs to go ahead and go for the 28nm process instead of the 40nm which is more problems than it is worth even for ATI. Intel well you could do better but no one really wants you to monopolize this segment of the industry.[/citation]

I do miss Matrox competing in the consumer market. Their 2D stuff was top notch...
I am no electrical engineer, but why would a 28nm process be better than a 40nm process? If 40 is too much trouble than it's worth, how much more trouble with a nearly 33% die shrink be any better?
 


The reason for a die shrink would will cost less for each chip to manufacture while fewer chips having defects.
 
"S3 Dual-GPU Card Competes with ATI Eyefinity"

misleading tittle. It doesn't compete whatsoever.
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Sure it does, just not in games.
I would be willing to bet there are a lot more professional applications that need SLS multi-monitor displays then there ever will be gamers...
 
Via is a company that specializes in making things that require very little power and thus require less cooling and make less sound. I would expect this to be in that same vein. It won't be a benchmark whore, but I'm pretty sure it'll deliver quality graphics and HD video in a small package that requires little power / cooling.
 
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