Monday, October 26th 2009
S3 Graphics Introduces 5400E Power Efficient GPGPU Processor
S3 Graphics announced the latest addition to its power-efficient embedded graphics processor family, with the unveiling of the OpenCL 1.0 capable Chrome 5400E GPGPU processor. The S3 Graphics 5400E will be unveiled at the Electronic Manufacturer Exposition (eMEX), October 22nd - 25th, in Suzhou, China at the Suzhou International Expo Center, Hall 4A, Booth No. 4K08.
OpenCL is an open, cross-platform standard used to harness the power of a GPUs internal shaders to accelerate parallel computations in applications ranging from scientific, medical, and other high performance computing (HPC) markets. The native OpenCL engine in the 5400E GPU enables our partners to go beyond graphics and video, and penetrate these diverse HPC markets.
"S3 Graphics continues to empower key embedded technology providers, helping extend their market offerings based on our growing portfolio of feature-rich products, incorporating next-generation technologies like General Purpose GPU computing, as well as the latest 3D graphics architectures, HD video decode and encode, and the latest HDMI and Display Port display interfaces," said Dr. Ken Weng, GM for S3 Graphics. "Our new Chrome 5400E truly bridges the gap between PC and embedded device design, giving customers true GPU versatility."
Native support of OpenCL with the industry's best GFLOPS per watt rating including a DirectX 10.1 / OpenGL 3.1 graphics engine, ChromotionHD video core for HD video decode including Blu-ray, H.264, and VC-1, a video encode engine, and OpenVG 1.1 engine in the 5400E creates the most versatile GPU for embedded applications requiring longevity, customization, performance, features, and low power.
DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.1 applications on Microsoft Windows and Linux platforms can be effectively run using the Chrome 5400E programmable shader cores to speed up 3D simulations, 3D rendering applications, and other visual processing functions. OpenVG 1.1 support boosts 2D based vector graphics for scalable graphics and video vector based applications.
Driver support of Microsoft operating systems includes Windows 7 Aero, Vista Aero, XP, and CE. Linux kernel 2.6.xx with support for RedHat, SuSE, Ubuntu, Fedora Core, Debian, along with other Linux distributions are supported by the 5400E drivers. For more information, visit the product page.
OpenCL is an open, cross-platform standard used to harness the power of a GPUs internal shaders to accelerate parallel computations in applications ranging from scientific, medical, and other high performance computing (HPC) markets. The native OpenCL engine in the 5400E GPU enables our partners to go beyond graphics and video, and penetrate these diverse HPC markets.
Native support of OpenCL with the industry's best GFLOPS per watt rating including a DirectX 10.1 / OpenGL 3.1 graphics engine, ChromotionHD video core for HD video decode including Blu-ray, H.264, and VC-1, a video encode engine, and OpenVG 1.1 engine in the 5400E creates the most versatile GPU for embedded applications requiring longevity, customization, performance, features, and low power.
DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.1 applications on Microsoft Windows and Linux platforms can be effectively run using the Chrome 5400E programmable shader cores to speed up 3D simulations, 3D rendering applications, and other visual processing functions. OpenVG 1.1 support boosts 2D based vector graphics for scalable graphics and video vector based applications.
Driver support of Microsoft operating systems includes Windows 7 Aero, Vista Aero, XP, and CE. Linux kernel 2.6.xx with support for RedHat, SuSE, Ubuntu, Fedora Core, Debian, along with other Linux distributions are supported by the 5400E drivers. For more information, visit the product page.
15 Comments on S3 Graphics Introduces 5400E Power Efficient GPGPU Processor
So I will say Performance/watt is important.:toast:
This is more of a Co-Processor than a Graphics Card I guess.
I wonder how these stand against the Cedar. :rolleyes:
i'm curious what third parties do with openCL
Yes it can run Crysis, assuming it's faster than it's predecessor it might even be somewhat playable.
The Chrome 440 ran it at 8.5 fps at 1024x768.
Other than that, it's not aimed at gamers. Low power, HD video acceleration. Expect to find it in embedded and some handheld devices (seeing how they support CE), perhaps if it were to support multichrome it might be a decent low power solution to play some games, nothing stellar though.
As far as I can tell, this could just be an embedded version of the 500 series.
Damn you VIA.. you could be spoiling all of Intel's netbook fun with that Nano CPU and a decent DX10.1 IGP from S3 but no.. you'll rather re-launch your products whenever a new driver function is active (in this case, it's OpenCL).
Simply it's not economical for ViA to produce that budget offering and compete with nV everybody whining cause either this woud be based on way too old P4P880 trailed back to 2003 and r&d costs too much to just listen to some enthusiastic whining. Where wer you when nobody bought VIA since nForce2 and nF3 250 hit the market and VIA went in those 3yrs waybelow it's market leadership it had in time of P3/K7 (1999-2002)
They seemingly done great hidden agreeement with envidia dropping their SoundStorm market in favour of ViA's poorer Envy line, and some niche embedded market for it's S3 graphics line. And beyond that they had and still have pretty much budget and excellent network controllers for FE, GbE and 1394.