S3's DeltaChrome Graphics Chip

Noob Jones writes "The Tech Report has an article about a new video card in the works at S3. 'S3 Graphics is back with a new chip, dubbed DeltaChrome, which looks like it might just be strong enough to become a player in the mid-range consumer graphics market.' With a third player back in the graphics market both Nvidia and ATi are going to have things to worry about but this can only spell good news for customers."

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SVGA cards are useless

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you High-end Graphics chip fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of my Windows box(a Pentium/933/256; 1024x768/8Mb) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to refresh the desktop. 20 minutes. At home, on my PC-XT with a 640x480 dispay 1kB, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Windows box, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

In addition, during this file transfer, the PC makes weird noises. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Microsoft Wordpad is straining to keep up as I type this.

I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working with various display cards, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen modern graphics card that can run faster than the CGA counterpart, despite the faster chip architecture and RAM size. My CGA/1kB runs faster than this card at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the SVGA is a superior system.

SVGA addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a SVGA card over other faster, cheaper, more stable cards.