S3 Chrome S25, S27 & S70 Technology Overview

S3 Graphics today formally launched the Chrome S20, its fourth-generation DirectX 9.0 graphics chip, running at what it claimed is the “highest frequency of any GPU currently available”.

That honour goes to the Chrome S27, which runs at 700MHz. It supports any memory configuration from single-channel DDR SDRAM up to quad-channel GDDR 3. It also features MultiChrome, S3’s answer to Nvidia’s SLi and ATI’s CrossFire multi-GPU systems. Unlike the others, MultiChrome is “completely open [and] non-propriety”, S3 claimed.

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S3 has implemented some things wanted very greatly by the market, from embedded designs to media machines and even desktop users, and put them into their newest series, the S3 ChromeS20 family. Initially, the ChromeS20 series will consist of two cards, being released initially this week in China.. ..we will probably see these products in the west during the month of November as well. The products are the ChromeS25 and the ChromeS27.

It’s been a long time since there was something to be excited about coming from S3. Here though, I see the potential for something particularly interesting, if done right. 9W GPUs, advanced visual filtering, MultiChrome, and various other things make the tidings look good.

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