S3 launches DirectX 10.1 Chrome 400 GPUs

Friday 15th February 2008, 11:30:00 AM, written by Arun

Despite losing more than half of their GPU/IGP market share in the last year according to Jon Peddie Research, VIA/S3 is hoping to change that situation with a new family of 65nm/DirectX 10.1/PCI Express 2.0 GPUs. The Chrome 400 Series will become available in late February 2008.

No performance information was available, although it uses a 64-bit memory bus and S3 claims to have achieved the "the highest performance-per-watt ratio ever", clearly hinting at their determination to recapture some share in the notebook market where they used to be relatively strong. The chip integrates DisplayPort, HDMI 1.2 and HDCP capabilities and fully accelerates H.264 video decoding. Similarly to NVIDIA's VP2 engine but unlike AMD's UVD, it does not seem to handle all of the VC-1 decoding process.

This family of GPUs will also be manufactured on Fujitsu's 65nm process, like VIA's recently launched Isaiah processor. No further details on pricing, SKU configurations or design wins were made available at press time.


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Latest Thread Comments (113 total)
Posted by rpg.314 on Thursday, 10-Dec-09 21:56:51 UTC
What happened to the VIA+nv chipset partnership? I thought that was a line nv was pushing hard on?

Posted by fehu on Thursday, 10-Dec-09 22:28:14 UTC
maybe via like more to not sell nothing instead that earning half with nvidia

Posted by itaru on Wednesday, 20-Jan-10 03:51:03 UTC
Image: http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/3791/0005929201aeb476buz6.jpg

Because it has writable L1,L2 Cache like Fermi that Chrome is very fast.
In spite of there being only ability for operation of only 35.2gflops.

Shader Performance RadeonHD3450 vs GeForce8500GT vs Chrome540GTX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8cUp-8Fyr0

Radeon HD 4670 vs GeForce GT240 vs Chrome540GTX Shader Performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNHoi8iEHrk

Posted by 3dcgi on Wednesday, 20-Jan-10 05:22:24 UTC
Maybe I missed something, but from where did you read Chrome has a read/write cache? Nothing in that diagram indicates such.

Posted by itaru on Wednesday, 20-Jan-10 06:19:42 UTC
The performance of these mov.(GS)

Shader Performance RadeonHD3450 vs GeForce8500GT vs Chrome540GTX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8cUp-8Fyr0

Radeon HD 4670 vs GeForce GT240 vs Chrome540GTX Shader Performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNHoi8iEHrk

and

L1,L2 which is connected directly with shader in the picture(separately from Texture Cache).

Posted by FUDie on Wednesday, 20-Jan-10 07:06:50 UTC
Quoting itaru
The performance of these mov.(GS)

Shader Performance RadeonHD3450 vs GeForce8500GT vs Chrome540GTX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8cUp-8Fyr0

Radeon HD 4670 vs GeForce GT240 vs Chrome540GTX Shader Performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNHoi8iEHrk

and

L1,L2 which is connected directly with shader in the picture(separately from Texture Cache).
You're basically reposting the same thing you said above. Spam?

Is Chrome540GTX's performance in SDK samples really that interesting?

-FUDie

Posted by itaru on Wednesday, 20-Jan-10 08:26:12 UTC
As for Fermi, a Geometry performance largely improves by Cache.
There is GSCubemap as the one example.

http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/pcw/docs/343/002/ph15.jpg

And there is 540GTX which shows a good result in GSCubemap in mov.

Posted by 3dcgi on Thursday, 21-Jan-10 03:05:17 UTC
Quoting itaru
As for Fermi, a Geometry performance largely improves by Cache.
There is GSCubemap as the one example.

http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/pcw/docs/343/002/ph15.jpg

And there is 540GTX which shows a good result in GSCubemap in mov.
GF100 has greatly improved geometry performance. I'm not sure how that data point leads to the conclusion of a read/write cache in Chrome. I suspect you're reading too much into a marketing diagram because the specs would surely specify read/write cache if it exists.

Posted by itaru on Friday, 12-Feb-10 14:16:19 UTC
http://www.via.com.tw/en/company/events/2010-dse/index.jsp

Join VIA at DSE 2010 and experience the latest technologies in next-generation signage, including a demonstration of the latest in Hi-Def, multi-display applications.
With extreme hardware acceleration of the latest HD video codecs, *the latest dual GPU card from S3 Graphics *
will be shown powering up to four independent HD video streams at resolutions of 1080p in a variety of flexible display configurations.

Posted by itaru on Thursday, 18-Feb-10 19:48:06 UTC
http://www.via.com.tw/en/resources/pressroom/pressrelease.jsp?press_release_no=4567

VIA Demos Dual GPU S3 Graphics Card at Digital Signage Expo 2010
S3 Graphics Chrome 5400E x2 powers to up to 4 Hi-Def videos streams across 8 displays with advanced PanoChrome™ technology


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