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S3 DeltaChrome S8 Gets Nitro Acceleration: Review of the Revamped S8 (page 23)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Anton Shilov

[ 03/09/2004 | 02:56 AM ]

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

Unfortunately, in Max Payne 2 S3 DeltaChrome S8 Nitro gave up its positions and appeared lagging behind all the rivals except the morally outdated GeForce FX 5600 Ultra. To our great disappointment, we have to admit that the cards on S3 DeltaChrome S8 Nitro will have to compete with the whole bunch of other products, but definitely not with GeForce FX 5600 Ultra, when they appear in the market. In this respect, I don’t want even to think about the possible performance of DeltaChrome S4 here.

Here the performance drops down dramatically again. It is impossible to play like that, no doubt.

Performance in Simulators

IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles

In Il-2 Sturmovik S3 DeltaChrome S8 Nitro rolled back to the very last spot having yielded even to GeForce FX 5600 Ultra. Well, it looks as if S3 Graphics will have to work really hard on its newborn before it becomes truly competitive.

The results need no comments of ours, I suppose.