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S3 has announced its new Chrome 500 series graphics cards. Supposedly the new cards have DX 10.1 support, can run OpenGL 3.0 applications, has Blu-ray play back capabilities and more.



In addition to supporting Hi-Def Blu-ray, the 500 Series supports features such as Picture-in-Picture and 8 channels of high fidelity audio with the S3 Graphics’ built-in Dolby 7.1 digital surround sound processor. DirectX, OpenGL, and GPGPU applications can also be efficiently processed with programmable shader cores to speed-up 3D and non-gaming functions, VIA stated.



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