S3 Gets a Leg Up on ATI and Nvidia

[MrMick]

S3 Graphics is the Rodney Dangerfield of the graphics industry. The company’s Chrome GPUs just don’t get much respect. But the latest model, the Chrome 530 GT, has a feature that neither ATI nor Nvidia can currently match.

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[chaohsiangchen]

That's really nice. Now I want to see this thing work on a G35 in a HTPC bench-off against G45 and Geforce 9400.

 

[hannibal]

For HTPC systems this seems to be good candidate. Really want to see how this will do compared to ATI 4350...

 

[cruiseoveride]

They are providing open source drivers. Its perfect for HTPC

 

[computerninja7823]

very sweet indeed

 

[mtyermom]

Intriguing... an HTPC might just be in my future....

 

[Shadow703793]

+1 for above. Would be a vey good HTPC card.

 

[timaahhh]

512 MB at 500 MHz with a 64 Bit bus? With bandwidth that small is 512 MB even getting used? Would the card even see a performance drop if it decreased its memory to 256 MB or even 128 MB?

 

[hemelskonijn]

demonhorde665:

Matrox and S3 did not move to away from the high end market in case of S3 this claim could be mostly right but Matrox still makes high end workstation graphic cards and they make them not only for x86 structured machines.

Just to clarify myself the definition of high end grfx card is based on the application of that card and in there segment at least matrox is doing a great job.

 

[zodiacfml]

i think s3 should focus on the HTPC market now that a lot is buying HD monitors and TV's and they can't come close to AMD and Nvidia.
will love 1080p,usable post processing improvements, low power, fanless heatsink at this price.

 

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[Guest]

Sound by graphic card... nice, but... for gamers it is too slow, and for H.264 ( blu-ray ) integrated nvidia or ATI/AMD is more then enough.
There isn't place on the market for this card.

 

[WheelsOfConfusion]

[citation][nom]Przemo[/nom]Sound by graphic card... nice, but... for gamers it is too slow, and for H.264 ( blu-ray ) integrated nvidia or ATI/AMD is more then enough.There isn't place on the market for this card.[/citation]
The article comparing integrated graphics playback of HD content demonstrated some weakness to that approach, and some people might be trying to convert an older computer (or at least parts of one) into an HTPC, so the newer integrated Nvidia/AMD approach may not be an option.
I think I'd like to see a review of this card if Tom's can get their hands on it. It'd be a refreshing change of pace from Nvidia/ATI all the time.

 

[Spathi]

The point should be it is Dolby Digital, ATI so far is only Dolby Pro Logic II(x)... proly cos most ppl are too dumb to know any better.

DD sounds better than DPL. Anyone with an AMP know this... (if they have worked out how to toggle between them). Dolby HD would be even better I suppose.. but hardly anybody has ever used it... not much even uses DTS.