X-bit labs

Started by: BorgDrone | Date 02/16/08

Comments: 8 | Last Comment:  02/26/08

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1. Why support for Dx 10.1 when even single Dx 10.1 game/programm will work with this garbage. I bought MB with their 2006 made chip and it was not able to support wide screen resolutions. I thought people are making jokes on forums about this until I read it on VIA site. I hope this "10.1" chip can work in wide screen resolutions.

2. If HD video decoding is well implemented, it really will be a nice choice for media centers and all non-gamers.

Still, I wish someone made a GPU that could compete with ATI's and Nvidia's offerings, but I don't have very much hope. The last relatively successful such attempt was Sis's Xabre, and that was awhile ago.

3. lawl.

go S3! (VIA!!!)

GO GO GO!

Show those consumerists dogs that there are other things then DAAMIT, nirVana and Evitel!

4. Well, at least they're not making graphics decelerators any more...LOL.

5. Incredible.

How can a company with much less resources releases a product with more features than power dogs like nvidia.

Very good S3. Very good In did.

6. What "more features"?

7. -full hardware support for BluRay decode at 1080p. If you think this is easy to do, go ahead, I challenge any of you to design a 65nm GPU costing about $25-30 which includes all of these features.

- fully DX10.1 compliant. It's not easy to achieve this compliance - anyone who has seen Microsoft's full WHQL suite specification for DX10.1 knows that this is a very challenging spec. Kudos to S3 for this achievement.

- support for PCIexpress 2.0 at 5Gbps. Another triumph - show me another company besides Intel, AMD and NVidia who can do this at an affordable price point for the high volume PC market.
Before you criticize S3, at least pause to consider how difficult it is to design a low-cost x16 lane PCIe chip at 5Gbps. Can you do it? I didn't think so.

- integrated HDMI transmitter including support for HDAudio. integrated HDCP keys to support playback of encrypted HD content at 1080p. Even Nvidia's 8500, 8600 and 8400 GPUs do not have integrated HDMI - they use SPDIF audio input. Another fine achievement for S3Graphics. Integrating HDCP keys (each set of keys is unique to each gpu!) is no mean feat - it takes process innovation as well as clever manufacturing. I think I am casting pearls before the swine here, because I doubt very much that anyone in this audience even remotely understands this technology.

8. still alive? wow =P

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