Officials for S3 Graphics in Fremont, California, denied Friday the forthcoming GammaChrome visual processing units did not sport native PCI Express connectivity. The new graphics products from S3 Graphics will feature new architecture and native support for the emerging bus.
“GammaChrome is a native PCI Express graphics processor and has no bridge,” Nadeem Mohammad, product marketing manager at S3 Graphics, told X-bit labs.
Earlier this week an Asian web-site published an article saying that S3 Graphics’ GammaChrome used a special “HSI” bridge to allow PCI Express connectivity. Representative for S3 assumed that either the story-writers had misunderstood something, or the person being interviewed had described the native PCI Express as an internal bridge.
“GammaChrome S18 is our first chip of a line of PCIe products, which all will be native PCI Express x16 products,” Mr. Mohammad emphasized.
Earlier this year S3 Graphics said that the GammaChrome visual processing units would feature architecture that was likely to be more powerful compared to existing DeltaChrome VPUs. S3’s representative added that the GammaChrome S18 will boast with a number of competitive advantages over products in the same class.
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Here is a thought. how about no one cares. S3 makes horrible graphics cards that are slower than hell, have horrible driver problems, and have absolutely no user base. I dont see how they sold one of the cards. I would presume they gave out more to reviewers than they actually sold. Thier so called high end card couldnt even keep up with a 9600pro and it had twice the ram twice the pipelines and twice the number of gpus. Now that is a seriously sad state of affairs for S3. But i guess there will always be someone dumb enough to buy one of these cards....
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Rr u sure ur not confusing S3 with XGI? Firstly here is no S3-based card around containing two GPU's (-->XGI), secondly, they didnt call the S8 as high-end, thats where the cancelled F1 should have been, and thirdly they dont have driver issues at all (again XGI), they work pretty fine. And yes there will be Guys "dumb enough" to buy this Card, for several good reasons, but look at yourself, u r dumb enough to confuse S3 with XGI, LOL
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it looks lke i did confuse the two. Well either way, the S3 wont be able to hold a candle to the nvidia and ati cards. its nice they are trying, but to what end. it will be 2 years before they could even think of becoming competivie. If im not mistaken, the S3 will be coming out around the same time as the R500 and Nv50. Well the R500 is supposedly supposed to have twice the performance of the x800. S3 wont be able to compete with that.
About xgi and driver problems. look a for a few reivews and u will find out you are wrong. the s3 had driver problems in most games and a good portion of the benchmarks werent runable because of this. for instane toms hardware new graphics gudie 4. They have the dual gpu xgi card there.
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#1 and #2 go .....
If people are dumb enought to buy the geforce fx5200 and fx5600, why dont they buy S3 cards that win in almost every benchmark beating those cards. No cheating optimizations, and lower 16bit render, WHY NOT?
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