DeltaChrome delivers a Hi-Def™ PicturePerfect™ computer experience!

http://www.s3graphics.com/index.html

MUUAAAAAHHHAAAA !!!

Paper launch - to confuse consumers

Goes way beyond directx 9.0 specifications - same a Geforce Fx claims it will.....hahahahah....I see the prices coming down....good for us.

http://www.s3graphics.com/DeltaChromeDX9.html


DeltaChrome graphics core provides:

Advanced Display Features
DirectX™ 9.0
Hi-Def™ Computing (HDTV
Chromotion™ Programmable Video Engine
V8™ Pipeline
PicturePerfect™
Advanced Deferred Rendering™


Advanced Display Features

Continuing the S3 Graphics tradition of providing advanced reliability, DeltaChrome products weave stability and technology into basic 2D display graphics features.


DirectX™ 9.0

DeltaChrome is equipped with programmable hardware shaders compatible with Pixel Shader version 2.0+ and Vertex Shader 2.0+. DeltaChrome actually goes beyond the DirectX 9.0 requirements with esoteric features for improved 3D and video quality. (www.Microsoft.com/windows/directx)


Hi-Def™ Computing

HDTV is the final word when it comes to high resolution displays available today. Thanks to DeltaChrome’s unique, integrated Hi-Def HDTV encoder technology, you can now get the most from HDTV resolution capable displays, televisions and projectors.

Hi-Def HDTV encoding brings the theater home when watching a DVD. Video games played in Hi-Def mode bring characters to life before your eyes, and Hi-Def corporate presentations viewed with an HDTV resolution capable projector are crisper and more professional looking than ever before.


Chromotion™ Programmable Video Engine

The Chromotion Programmable Video Engine is a radical departure from fixed function video decoding and processing. The Chromotion engine has the flexibility to process MPEG-2/4, Windows Media Video, and other video standards. Fixed function processing such as iDCT is now handled by the programmable Chromotion engine. Post-processing to improve poor source material is an exciting new feature that will enhance video material such as webcasts.

The Chromotion engine’s real-time rendering capabilities bring video effect processing to the mainstream. The home video enthusiast can now exercise as much ArtisticLicense™ as advanced video artists. All can edit and process video with Chromotion quality using familiar effects and filters for professional looking results for any project, whether simple or involved.


V8™ Pipeline

The DeltaChrome V8 pipeline is a sophisticated and complex full 8-pixel pipeline. An astounding 2.4 Giga-pixel per second fill rate increases the intensity of the gamer's visual experience and provides heart-pounding 3D graphics speed.

You will be assured of being the last player standing in the emerging mobile gaming trend when your laptop is equiped with DeltaChrome's V8 pipeline.


PicturePerfect™

DeltaChrome’s PicturePerfect hardware anti-aliasing for full screen and WindowsXP text makes for a consistent, silky smooth-edged image. No more jaggies.


Advanced Deferred Rendering™

The completely new Advanced Deferred Rendering technology dramatically increases the efficiency of the 3D engine for maximum performance beyond standard z-culling technology. By maximizing effective bandwidth, Advanced Deferred Rendering does not leave extreme gamers short during peak 3D performance levels.




PS : One more reason to endlessly rant & flame about.

It looks good but I'll not buy it.

ATi Radeon 9500 tweakble to Radeon 9700 - I'm considering this even though I don't play 3D games.

One more thing. I have just tried 1920x1080 WMV9 video in my Athlon 1.33GHz PC. Pathetic!

One reader ponders whether such a conversion, anyway, would do much more than enable the other four pipelines, but the 9500 only has half the memory bandwidth of the 9700 Pro.

But that thing sure rocks !!

PS : I can change my ASUS A7N266VM motherboard into a ASUS A7N266C/N with just a solder !!

Even more impressive is the pricing. S3 thinks these cards, which it is positioning as a high end mainstream system, at slightly less than $100.

S3 believes that the Columbia "will perform in the 20K+ range for 3DMark2001SE" and outscore even the Radeon 9700 Pro from ATI, and close to the NV30 from Nvidia.

Delta Chrome retail boards should be available in Q2 starting from $90.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7319

Price sounds decent enough....

Hey pps, what happened to the overclocking? Lemme know, k?

Bah... S3... wouldn't touch them with a 100 foot pole!

every market is getting over saturated....console market, graphics, cpu...

is this good or bad ?

consumer point of view : it is good

manufacturers : bad bad bad...

there should be a common guidelines... like the intel x86 architecture...atleast the programmers life will be easier....but then again there will be someone like M$ that want to things their own way....*sighs*

nvidia CG, M$ directx, opengl...pitty thy programmer


@Bhairav - sorry didnt check my inbox for many days...i have replied...