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Availability

The 530 GT is sold from S3's store for a price of $54.95 USD. No other online stores are known to carry this model and it is out of stock as of November 6, 2009. The 540GTX is sold from S3's Gstore for $69.95. It is similarly out of stock although a low profile version has been produced by Aopen Japa

and is still on sale as of November 6, 2009.

Features

The production model is with a 65 nm process, supports

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10.1,

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3.0, and uses the

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2.0 interface. Chromotion engine now supports Variable length decoding, and dual-stream Blu-ray playback. Display unit includes 2 dual-link DVI transmitters with integrated HDMI (audio passthrough) and

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, an integrated dual channel LVDS transmitter, an integrated TV/HDTV encoder, and support for two analog CRTs. 530 GT runs at 625 MHz core speed, and has 512MB of 500 MHz

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memory on a 64 bit bus. The 540GTX added a

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in the full height version as well as increased clock and memory speeds of 800Mhz and 850Mhz

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respectively. From

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driver version 14.02.10 on, S3 Chrome 500 video cards support VDPAU.

Performance

The 500 MHz GDDR2 memory clock, combined with the cards 64 bit memory bus, gives it a total memory bandwidth of 8GB/s, on par with budget cards from

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and

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. Performance information released by S3 indicates the cards performance in

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2006 is comparable to an AMD HD4350.

References

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