A few weeks from the launch of the GeForce GTX 200 and Radeon HD 4800, S3 has officially announced its Chrome 440 GTX.
S3’s graphic subsidiary is unfortunately not too generous with details, but the card was presented as being similar to the Chrome 430 GT. We can therefore assume that its bigger sibling will differ only with higher frequencies. Its GPU is moreover set at 725 MHz or 100 MHz more than the 430 GT. It’s engraved in 65nm by Fujitsu, supports Shader Model 4.1, DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 2.1, PCI-Express 2.0 and has ChromotionHD which supports the H.264, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, VC-1, WMV-HD and AVS standards. The memory bus has a width of 64 bits but the GDDR2 500 MHz is replaced by GDDR3 set at 700 MHz. The card will soon be offered by
GStore for $69.95 and it should also be available in Europe.
