S3 Chrome S27 Video Card - Reviews, Specifications, and Pictures

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S3 Chrome S27

At A Glance

Manufacturer:	S3
Series:	3D Rage
GPU:	S20
Release Date:	2005-11-03
Interface:	PCI-E x16
Core Clock:	700 MHz
Memory Clock:	700 MHz (1400 DDR)
Memory Bandwidth:	22.4 GB/sec
Shader Operations:	5600 MOperations/sec
Pixel Fill Rate:	5600 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate:	2800 MTexels/sec
Vertex Operations:	700 MVertices/sec

Details

Noise Level:	Quiet
Framebuffer:	128,256 MB
Memory Type:	GDDR3
Memory Bus Type:	64x2 (128 bit)
DirectX Compliance:	9.0
OpenGL Compliance:
PS/VS Version:	2.0/2.0
Process:	90 nm
Fragment Pipelines:	8
Vertex Pipelines:	4
Texture Units:	4
Raster Operators	8

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Advanced Options

Overclock

Pipelines

Multi-GPU

Core: 700
Mem: 700

User Ratings

Overall

8.8 (16 votes)

Performance

9.1 (11 votes)

Price

9.8 (11 votes)

Features

8.9 (10 votes)

Overclockability

9.9 (10 votes)

Silence

9.1 (10 votes)

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	Price	Name	Core	Mem	Buswidth	Memory	Displays	TV	VIVO	HD	HDCP	2-Slot
		S3 Chrome S27 GDDR3	700?	700?	128 bit	128 MB	DVI-I / VGA	y	-	y	-	-

10 Reviews

Chrome S27 [reference card] (www.hothardware.com)	Chrome S27 [reference card] (www.techspot.com)
Chrome S27 [reference card] (www.xbitlabs.com)	Chrome S27 [reference card] (www.pcstats.com)
Chrome S27 [reference card] (www.3declipse.com)	S3 Chrome S27 GDDR3 (www.sudhian.com)
S3 Chrome S27 GDDR3 (www.sudhian.com)	S3 Chrome S27 GDDR3 (www.sudhian.com)
S3 Chrome S27 GDDR3 (www.sudhian.com)	S3 Chrome S27 GDDR3 (www.hexus.net)

3 Comments

Friday, May 12, 2006 2:45:47 PM

Steve
The Progenitor

In the review by Sudhian this card performs not as well as the X1300 Pro but better than the 7300 GS. However it was not able to play Quake 4 at all. This card actually got higher FPSs than the X1300 Pro in HL2 Lost Coast. They do not recommend it however, due to driver instability.

Monday, May 22, 2006 9:16:17 AM

Steve
The Progenitor

The Hexus review actually shows the performance that can be gained by using MultiChrome, S3's version of SLi/CrossFire. MultiChrome does not do as well as CrossFire or SLi, but there is an average frames per second increase of 96% (almost double the frame rate of a single card) in Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. In the other games MulitChrome does not seem to do well at a low resolution like 1024x768 (frame rate actually decreases when a another card is added) but at 1280x1024, Far Cry sees a 30% gain and Quake 4 sees a 12% gain. Please read the review for all the info.

Friday, August 24, 2007 8:15:47 PM

anonymous
guest

Yes this card supports Multi-GPU so that should be enabled.

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