Computex 2001 Exclusive: New Graphics Chips from SiS and Trident
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SiS 315
After the successful introduction of the SiS 735 Athlon chipset , the company is following it up quickly wth the SiS 315 graphics chip. For our part, we didn't have all the time necessary to go into as great a depth as we would have liked in our reviews, but our first looks here should provide you with a strong assessment of what the SiS 315 and Trident Blade XP are capable of.
Looking at the 315, it has some attractive features:
- 256 Bit architecture
- 0.15 micron, 529 balls BGA package
- 166 MHz chip clock
- supports 16, 32, 64 and 128 MB
- supports synmmetric and asymmetric SDRAM or DDR configurations
- 128 Bit memory interface (2.7 GB/s with SDRAM, 5.4 GB/s with DDR)
- AGP 4x support
- 4 bilinear filtered textures per cycle
- FSAA support
- 375 MHz RAMDAC, up to 2048x1536
- TV encoder interface
- DVD decoding with motion compensation
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