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S3 GammaChrome S18 Pro Graphics Adapter Review (page 18)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin

[ 04/19/2005 | 07:19 PM ]

Futuremark 3DMark05

The GammaChrome S18 looks well in 3DMark03, too. Its result is low as it is, but higher than the RADEON X600 PRO has got.

The GammaChrome goes abreast to the RADEON X600 PRO in the first game test which depicts a typical scene from a first-person shooter.

The GammaChrome doesn’t have the same disastrous performance hit here as it had in many games as soon as we enabled full-screen anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering.

The second test looks like a role-playing game, and the new graphics processor from S3 succeeds here: it is a little behind the GeForce 6600 and far ahead of both RADEONs.

The same goes for the “eye candy” mode.

The GammaChrome S18 is quite successfully crunching through the third game test with its sophisticated pixel shaders. It is still ahead of the RADEON X600 PRO, although not as far ahead as in the second test.

The GammaChrome is no worse than the card from ATI Technologies even with enabled full-screen anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering. So, the total score of the S3 card seems well deserved.