S3 Graphics Card with DX10.1/OpenGL3.0 Support Available at $44.95
Chrome 530 GT HDMI 512MB
Lately, S3 Graphics issues Chrome 500 Series VGA Card supporting DirectX10.1 and OpenGL 3.0 applications. It claims to be the first graphics card to support OpenGL 3.0, but NVIDIA had already unveiled a driver supporting OpenGL 3.0 for GeForce 8000/9000 Series. There are no games supporting OpenGL 3.0 as yet. John Carmack from id Software might be interested in working on this.
S3 Graphics announces that the OpenGL 3.0 acceleration function on Chrome 500 Series VGA card supports Windows and Linux platforms, which indicates its driver has been maturely developed.
Chrome 530GT is already available on GStore at $44.95.
S3 Graphics Chrome 500 Series New Features:
• Microsoft® DirectX™ 10.1
• Shader Model 4.1
• OpenGL 2.1/3.0
• GPGPU Shader Architecture
• Optimized 64-bit Memory Interface
• AcceleRAM™ Graphics Memory Support
• ChromotionHD™ 2.0 Video Engine for Blu-ray™ and BD-Live™ Playback
• H.264, VC-1, and MPEG-2 HD Acceleration
• AES 128 Encryption Engine
• Integrated DisplayPort™ with HDCP™
• Dual-Link DVI™ and HDMI™ with HDCP™
• PowerWise™ Advanced Power Savings
November 23rd, 2008 at 9:20 pm
They compare CPU usage with Geforce and 3D-Performance with ATI. Because of that, I am pretty sure that the CPU usage with ATI is identical or simular to that of the S3 card, otherwise they would have compared with the same brand twice. No?