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Chrome 400 chips get free software.
S3 Graphics
has joined AMD and NVIDIA by providing support for the acceleration of general purpose tasks on theGPU.
S3 has announced the availability of S3fotopro, a GPGPU application for the enhancement of photos. The application is intended to operate on the S3's latest 'Chrome 400' series GPUs, and respective graphics cards.
The software uses a proprietary algorithm to analyse and automatically adjust macro and micro details within a picture to enhance the quality of the image.
S3 alleges that the algorithm running on the GPU enables the workload to be 'hundreds of magnitudes' faster than current market CPUs.
"S3 Graphics continues to develop and bring to market cutting edge technologies that use the power of the GPU to meet new demands in emerging computation-intensive markets. Application processes that required days can now be completed in seconds using a GPGPU product like ours," said Michael Shiuan, VP of Hardware Engineering at S3 Graphics.
"Markets that can benefit from S3 Graphics GPGPU technology include High-Performance Computing (HPC), HD video transcoding/encoding, scientific, engineering, medical, imaging, physics, and many other areas," said Dr Ken Weng, GM for S3 Graphics.
While S3fotopro can be seen as a demo for technology showcasing, it bodes well that S3 has already grasped the concept of GPGPU programming, and that the company is already producing tools for developers to utilise the company's chipsets.
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Athiril
Oct 20, 2008 1:13 PM
"Original" vs "With S3FotoPro Enhancement"
It's not processor intensive to perform a levels adjustment :P
TinBane
Oct 20, 2008 1:54 PM
Is that what it's actually doing though, Athiril?
Athiril
Oct 20, 2008 4:53 PM
I can get the same results with a levels adjustment.
The software only currently supports GPGPU mode on S3 chips, there is really neither power there or decent software for it, I checked out the software running in CPU mode as Im interested in any GPGPU graphics software.
It processes my jpegs from my 30D in about 2 seconds each in software mode.
Unless the software developers make it so it can take advantage of nVidia or ATi hardware (doubtful seeing as they want to push their own hardware... but their own isnt nowhere near as powerful) or make the software useful to somebody, it just appears as gimmick or tech demo to me.
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