That's what I saw today. I saw that same card and had no freaking clue what it was. I thought it was a diamond rip-off of a GF2 32mb.

How do they compare to the likes of a GF2 GTS?

Savage chips, I really like them all!
Such a shame really that NVidia killed everybody: 3dfx, S3, and Matrox and the Xabre chip that almost nobody has heard of and so on...

hehe I do have a feeling that S3 is gonna change the world of graphics, and after reading the entire artice , this was a very intersting point:

X-bit labs:

"Tell us a little bit about your Destination Generation products that should sport Shader Model 4.0 capability. When did you start the development? Is it more challenging to design a chip with unified pixel and vertex processors? What manufacturing technology will you use in late 2006 when the Destination products are supposed to arrive?"

Nadeem Mohammad:

"This architecture for this new generation has been in development quite a while, originally as part of our advance research group. This was well before any engagement in Microsoft on the DirectX 10 specification. I can not comment on any of the features or specification of this product family. I will say that I am personally very excited about this design – it will have features and capabilities which I have dreamed about since my first work on graphics processors back in 1987! 2006 year is going to be a milestone year for the entire graphics industry."


So Next year is gonna give us maybe some more room for choice I really hope that S3 makes it to thigh Enthousiast level, that would be great.

Nadeem Mohammad:

"As you can see from our demonstration our 90nm Chrome20 series products are alive and kicking, we do not anticipate any problems due to the process, clocks are hitting targets, power consumption is well within expectations, yields are acceptable – we’re in good shape."

here S3's Chrome 20 Prototype board:

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Man it looks sweet

So at least that is the good news

yeah  the layout surely does, though it does have a PCI-Express Connector, it would outrun a Radeon X800SE and GeForce 6800LE with ease

Anyway it's just another advatage to see S3 coming back to buisness again and also a greater advantage for the Main stream people, let's hope that S3 will make it to the High End sector also, because ATi and nVidia are the only one around in that area, to have S3 in that group would make that group more interesting also, then there is more choice instead of the old two.

Thanx to S3 we have S3TC and it's still being used which is cool

It's a prototype, could be running below specs, thus not needing a big cooler.

yeps S3 still has the best low power GFX card around, very nice for low noise and power sufficiant systems

I just really hope S3 will make it to the quallities of Ati & NV, the more choices the better, so then the lower the prices @ the retail markets.

which drive did you use?
I used the Diamond ViperII S3TL drivers 1.09 under Win98SE, no corruptions what so ever.

strange that you get errors and so on.
is you S3 SAVAGE 2000 a 32MB model or 64MB model?