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S3 GammaChrome S18 Pro Graphics Adapter Review

Date: 2005-4-21

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   You may have read our recent preview of the new graphics processor from S3 called GammaChrome (see our article called S3 GammaChromeS18 Graphics Processor Preview). Today we’re going to...

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S3 GammaChrome S18 Pro Graphics Adapter Review

The GammaChrome is slower than the RADEON X600 PRO and GeForce 6600 but faster than the RADEON X300 that works at lower frequencies.

S3 GammaChrome S18 Pro Graphics Adapter Review

As we had expected, the GammaChrome suffered a catastrophic performance hit in the “eye candy?mode. It was twice slower even than the RADEON X300. So, S3’s full-screen anti-aliasing is useless in practice ?you can’t play comfortably with this feature turned on.

S3 GammaChrome S18 Pro Graphics Adapter Review

The GammaChrome outperforms the RADEON X300 and provides enough speed in low resolutions on the Metallurgy level.

S3 GammaChrome S18 Pro Graphics Adapter Review

Again, the performance of the graphics card from S3 plummets down in the “eye candy?mode, which is only really playable on the GeForce 6600.




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