S3 Graphics has a new member in its Chrome 500 Series graphics processor family in the form of an 850MHz clocked GDDR3 based Chrome 540 GTX. The Chrome 540 GTX combines HDMI, DisplayPort and DVI, thus brings to you an excellent HD playback.
The Chrome 540 GTX offers the extra GPU horsepower required for high-quality HD video decoding, image post-processing and color enhancement, offers an amazing viewing experience and comes with an in-built Dolby 7.1 digital surround sound processor.
You can effortlessly run DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.0 applications on Microsoft Windows and Linux platforms with the Chrome 540 GTX programmable shader cores, thus speeding up the 3D games, non-gaming applications as well as visual processing functions with the built-in GPGPU engine.
“S3 Graphics has continued to introduce new visualization technologies to the market by adding another feature-rich product to our growing portfolio of key graphics and display processors,†said Dr. Ken Weng, GM for S3 Graphics. “Our new Chrome 540 GTX card brings features usually found only in enthusiast grade products to mainstream users, making the latest innovative technologies available to all.â€
The graphics card lets the multimedia users strike a perfect balance of DirectX 10.1 / OpenGL 3.0 graphics performance, Picture-in-Picture Blu-ray playback and high-throughput 64-bit GDDR3 memory bus interface that runs at 850 MHz.
The VESA DisplayPort standard, HDMI, dual-link DVI-I and an optional CRT interface (DVI-to-CRT dongle) are utilized for display connections. Some other features of the Chrome 540 GTX are the ChromotionHD 2.0 video processor unit (VPU), advanced filtering and post-processing which assures smooth decoding of MPEG-4/AVC (H.264), MPEG-2, and VC-1 for Blu-ray and HD video. It is also incorporates the PowerWise technology for Green Computing.
The S3 Graphics Chrome 540 GTX hi-def graphics card is now available for $69.95.
