S3 Returns, S3 S27 HD Graphics Card

[Fr3@k3r]

Chrome S27

http://www.s3graphics.com/en/products/chrome_s27/

and a review

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/s3-chrome-s27.html

but the main thing of this card that intriques me is the HD not the gaming ..


this part confuses me tho...

Flexible memory compatibility includes full support for DDR-1, cost effective DDR-2 and high speed DDR-3 memory technologies. With such versatility in memory support, the Chrome S20 series offers a wide variety of price/performance configurations targeting the volume mainstream desktop market.

someone care to explain?

i really like this tho

HDTV Hi-Def™ Experience Get more value from your HDTV using the integrated Hi-Def, HDTV encoder technology, which supports all 18 ATSC DTV standards, including 1080p

and the rest..

The boundaries of graphics performance are once again being tested with games featuring ever increasing levels of realism, upcoming operating systems incorporating complex graphical desktops, and PC functioning more and more as a multimedia hub, delivering a truly high definition visual experience. The S3 Graphics Chrome S27 has been developed from the ground up to meet and exceed these requirements, boasting powerful new video processing capabilities as well as superb 3D performance. What results is a performance driven, feature-rich graphics processor enabling an authentic Hi-Def™ visual experience, while still maintaining ultra low power consumption to enable ergonomic fanless designs.

Manufactured using the latest 90nm technology from Fujitsu, the S3 Graphics Chrome S27 features class leading core and memory clock rates, with additional support for the latest DDR3 memory. At the same time, the Chrome S27 features advanced power management features usually found only in mobile solutions, such as multi-domain dynamic clock gating. The efficient and power smart design, coupled with advanced process technology, has enabled the Chrome S20 series to set new standards in desktop power/performance without feature compromise.

Featuring a high speed DirectX 9.0 graphics engine, the S3 Graphics Chrome S27 graphics engine consists of 4 full precision vertex shader units and 8 full precision pixel shader units translating 5.6 Billion pixel shader operations per second, enabling next generation applications with lengthy, complex shaders.

The S3 Graphics Chrome S27 features the latest Chromotion Video Engine, enabling acceleration for all leading video standards, new features to enhance the user's Hi-Def widescreen digital media experience, and a comprehensive feature set enabling users to creatively tweak and tune their viewing experience.

Flexible memory compatibility includes full support for DDR-1, cost effective DDR-2 and high speed DDR-3 memory technologies. With such versatility in memory support, the Chrome S20 series offers a wide variety of price/performance configurations targeting the volume mainstream desktop market.


Reflecting the company's environmental drive, the S3 Graphics Chrome S27 is fully ROHS compliant, with lead-free readiness that makes the Chrome ideal for OEM and system builders planning for systems to be sold mid-next year in many global regions.
The S3 Graphics Chrome S27 also introduces S3 Graphics MultiChrome™ technology, an open-platform and cable free multi-graphics acceleration technology. Enabled in every Chrome S27 card, MultiChrome will enable two or more Chrome S27 cards or GPUs to operate together to provide additional game acceleration on any motherboard with suitable PCI Express slots.

Chrome S27 Highlight Features


PCI Express™ The Chrome S27 employs a native PCI Express high speed serial link implementation. Dynamic support for 16x, 8x, 4x, and 1x lane configurations enables up to 8.0 GB/s transfers between host system and graphics subsystem. Full DirectX™ 9.0 Support Support for Dual graphic card implementations enabling performance increases for applications such as 3D gaming. HDTV Hi-Def™ Experience Get more value from your HDTV using the integrated Hi-Def, HDTV encoder technology, which supports all 18 ATSC DTV standards, including 1080p. In HDTV Hi-Def mode, the Chrome S27 brings the theater experience into your home for all your PC media, video games explode to life before your eyes in vivid detail, and Hi-Def corporate presentations will set new standards. Chromotion™ Video Engine The Chrome S27 includes the advanced Chromotion Video Engine that is fully compatible with Microsoft DirectX-VA media acceleration. Its powerful programmable video effects can be applied to almost all video codecs, including Windows Media Video 9 (WMV9), MPEG-2, and MPEG-4. Post-processing filters enhance video from poor, low bit rate source materials. Real-time rendering capabilities bring video effect processing to mainstream home video enthusiasts, who can now exercise as much ArtisticLicense™ as advanced video artists. Class Leading Core and Memory Clock rates The Chrome S27 leads the industry with 650 MHz core and memory clocks, thanks to the advanced 90nm manufacturing process. Advanced 90nm Manufacturing Process Manufactured using world leading 90nm technology from Fujitsu, the S3 Graphics Chrome S27 leverages high speed transistor technology to achieve leading performance per watt operation. DeepColor™ Precision DeepColor 10-bit-per-color component rendering precision allows for 1024 shades of pure color or grayscale, compared to only 256 shades available using standard 32-bit display modes. Vertex Shader 2.0+ and Pixel Shader 2.0+ • DirectX 9.0 VS/PS 2.0 + hardware – 8 PS and 4 VS

• 128-bit (4xFP32) vertex precision and 96-bit (4xFP24) pixel precision per clock
• Up to 16 concurrent texture map references per pass
• Shadow Volume acceleration with two-sided stencil
• Non-power of 2 textures
• High accuracy floating point render targets for cinematic quality image rendering
• High quality advanced 16x anisotropic filtering
• High quality rotated grid full screen anti-aliasing with 4x super-sampling up to 1600x1200
• Volume and cube maps for photo-realistic reflections
• Programmable per pixel gamma correction
• High Performance Fast Tri-Linear filtering Crisp Rendering • Zero latency – ultra fast zero cycle clear
• Optimized Z-buffer write and read
• Triangle mask optimization
• Fast Clear technology Full Precision Pixel Pipeline • Full floating point precision ALU for single clock execution per pipeline for PS 2.0+ operations.
• Programmable cache for engine speed and efficiency
• Unified superwide pipeline for seamless 2D/3D/Video context switching
• Optimized advanced shading dependency read pipelines
• Programmable render target blending
• Programmable depth shader
• Microsoft Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) support
• Real time post processing
• ArtisticLicense real-time video effects GDDR1 / GDDR2 / GDDR3 Memory Interface • 32/64/128-bit ( ChromeS27 ) memory bus
• 32/64/128/256 MB frame buffer w/ GDDR1/GDDR3
• 32/64/128/256/512 MB frame buffer w/ GDDR2
• Peak memory bandwidth to 22.4 GB/s @ 750 MHz (max –GDDR3)
• Peak memory bandwidth up to 16 GB/s @ 500MHz (max – GDDR1/GDDR2)
• Dynamic CKE controlled power management
• Support for "termination free" low cost board designs Integrated Hi-Def HDTV & Standard TV Encoder • Comprehensive support for all 18 ATSC DTV standards
• Component (YPbPr) output
• 4:4:4 conversion with 10 bit DAC resolution
• ChromoVision™ full screen video on secondary HDTV / TV
• Full desktop view in HDTV mode
• All NTSC/PAL standard TV output formats (S-video, composite)
• Macrovision compliant
• Flicker filter with programmable coefficients
• Vertical over/under-scan compensation
• Adaptive aperture correction
• Non-linear scaling: for panorama 16:9 viewing on HDTV
• ChromoColor™ , including full range RGB to YUV color space conversion with Hue , Saturation, Brightness, and Contrast adjustment
• Smooth vertical overscan compensation with programmable contraction factors Duo-Rotate™ • Hardware acceleration for display rotation for desktop and TabletPC (90°, 180°, 270°)
• Displays can be independently rotated
• Rotation acceleration for 3D ,2D & media playback
• Full operation of geometry, lighting and texture effects High Performance 400MHz 10-bit CRT DAC • 1+ billion colors (Giga-Palette)
• 2048x1536 QXGA (3.1M) display resolution capable
• Excellent INL/DNL characteristics (+/- 1 LSB)
• Dual mode compatible (HDTV/CRT, DVI/CRT, TV/CRT or LVDS/CRT)
• High precision Gamma control

 

[David]

this part confuses me tho...


someone care to explain?

Targeted at OEMs, I think, it means the card will work with DDR memory (if they have some left over), DDR2 memory (the current standard in new PCs) and DDR3 (fastest).

So basically OEMs can make cards ranging from basic cheap cards using DDR to higher end cards using DDR3.

 

[Fr3@k3r]

Targeted at OEMs, I think, it means the card will work with DDR memory (if they have some left over), DDR2 memory (the current standard in new PCs) and DDR3 (fastest).

So basically OEMs can make cards ranging from basic cheap cards using DDR to higher end cards using DDR3.

thats what i thought... thanks david.