Summarized from S3 website

Product Overview

S3 ViRGE/DX & GX

Integrated 3D Video/Graphics Accelerators

High-Performance Integrated 2D/3D Graphics

and Video Accelerators

· 64-bit 2D/3D graphics engine

· Integrated 170 MHz RAMDAC and clock

synthesizer

· S3 Ò Streams ProcessorÔ technology

· Pin and software compatible solutions

· ViRGE/GXÔ accelerator supports SDRAM/

SGRAM/EDO DRAM memory. ViRGE/DXÔ

accelerator supports EDO DRAM memory

Improved S3dÔ Ô Graphics Engine Performance

· High performance 2D acceleration

· Flat and Gouraud shading for 3D

· High quality 3D texture mapping

· Perspective correction with a parallel

processing perspective engine

· Bi-linear and tri-linear texture filtering

using S3’s new SmartFilterÔ technology

· MIP-Mapping

· Depth cueing, fogging, alpha blending

· Video texture mapping

· Z-buffering

Improved S3 Streams Processor Features

· Supports on-the-fly stretching and blending

of primary RGB stream and RGB or YUV

(video) secondary stream

· Each stream can have different color depths

· High-quality video playback with horizontal

and vertical interpolation

· Support for IndeoÔ, CinepakÔ, and software

and hardware-accelerated MPEG-1 video

· Brightness, hue, saturation controls

Glueless PCI 2.1 Local Bus Support

PCI Bus Mastering for Display List Processing

and Video Capture Support

High-Performance Memory Support

· 64-bit 1-cycle EDO DRAM & SDRAM/SGRAM

memory interface

· 1-, 2- and 4-MByte EDO DRAM and

SDRAM/SGRAM video memory

Improved S3 Scenic HighwayÔ Ô Interface

· Industry standard video digitizers and S3

Scenic/MX2Ô MPEG-1 audio/video decoder

· Odd/even field detection

· Improved horizontal decimation

Other Multimedia Support Hooks

· I

2

C serial communications bus

· 8-bit bi-directional feature connector

Non-x86 CPU Support

· Big endian/little endian byte ordering

· Relocatable addressing

Full Software Support

· Drivers for major operating systems and

APIs: [Windows Ó 95, Windows 3.11, Windows

NTÔ, OS/2 Ó 2.1 and 3.0 (WarpÔ), Direct 3DÔ,

BRenderÔ, RenderWareÔ, OpenGLÔ]

· Popular games supported with 3D

acceleration

· ISV and marketing programs to ensure

abundant title support

· Software fully backwards compatible with

ViRGE. Enhanced software available for

enhanced ViRGE/DX & GX features.

Green PC/Monitor Plug and Play Support

· Full hardware and BIOS support for VESA

Display Power Management Signaling

(DPMS) monitor power savings modes

· DDC monitor communications

Extensive Static/Dynamic Power Management

Industry-Standard 208-pin PQFP package

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