SIS Xabre 600 Review (1)
Overclocker 26 Nov 2002

SiS is definitely busy with attacking the low end graphics card market. First it was Xabre 400 and now Xabre 600. According to SiS, Xabre 600 is targeting the Radeon 9000 and MX440 cards. With a new core and memory clock default to 300Mhz and a silicon process of 0.13um, it definitely cools the GPU down and make it a good choice for overclocking since it comes with 2.8ns vram. In our tests, we managed to run it at 335/350 without problems.

On the Xabre 600, Xabre's new revolutionary new Vertexilizer™ Engine is a software and hardware vertex processing engine. This will definitely help in delivering better performance as it will offload some of the processing from the GPU to the higher speed CPUs. Furthermore, Xabre's intelligent design platform allows future upgrades without yanking any hardware.

With Xabre 600, we see a new series of Xsmart technology. XmartDrive™ senses the need for speed when entering complex, 3D environments and cranks up processing power. And when it's time to get back to your regular office work, Xabre's XmartDrive™ automatically spools down the processing power. XmartVision™ gives you a visual edge by automatically sensing when a 3D environment may be too dark and making corrections instantly to render a rich visual environment. XmartAGP™ With the dizzying number of chipsets and motherboards available today, remembering your system's optimal AGP capability is probably not at the top of your "to-do" list. XmartAGP™ technology automatically queries the host computer, dynamically adjusting itself to maximize performance. Whether your system operates at a poky 1X AGP, or the latest 8X performance standard, Xmart-AGP™ brings out the best your computer has to offer

Xabre600 Specification

Full-brown AGP Interface
AGP 8X - AGP3.0 compliant
AGP 8X 533 MHz with 16 stages pipeline full side-band function
Hardware auto detect for AGP1.0, AGP 2.0, or AGP3.0 mode

Hyper Velocity 3D Engine
DirectX 8.1 --Pixel Shader ver. 1.3.
Bump Mapping, Cubic Mapping and VolumeTexture
Texture transparency, blending, wrapping, mirror, clamping, fogging, and alpha blending.
Vertex fogging and fog table and T/L based vertex fog range
Specular lighting
2X/3X/4X full scene anti-aliasing

Ultra performance 256-bit engine
4 pixel programmable rendering pipelines and 8 texture units
Peak polygon rate: 30M polygon/sec @ 1 pixel/polygon with Gouraud shaded, point -sampled, linear and bilinear texture mapping
Peak fill rate: 1200 M pixel/sec, 2400 M texture/sec @ 10,000 pixel/polygon with Gouraud shaded and two bilinear textured

Revolutionary VLIW T&L engine
Up to 10 active light sources, including point, spot, specular and fog
Object space to screen space transform
Back face culling
Hardware view volume clipping
OpenGL two side lighting
OpenGL primary and secondary color merging

Revolutionary VLIW T&L engine
Hardware command queue
Direct Draw Accelerator
GDI 2000 Accelerator
Maximum 128 MB frame buffer with linear addressing
AGP8X 533 MHz data read for all 2D engine functions

True-to-life MotionFixing™ Video Processor
Down scaling operation, and scaling vector as 1/2, 1/4.
De-interlaced and 1/2 down scaling function
4 fields per-pixel motion detection de-interlace function

MPEG 2/1 Video decoder
Motion Compensation layer decoding architecture
Up to 20 M bit/sec bit rate decoding
VCD, DVD and HDTV decoding

Widely supported Memory Interface
32 MB, 64MB, and 128MB memory configurations
4Mx16, 8Mx16, 1Mx32, 2Mx32 and 4Mx32 DDR SDRAM
128-bit DDR data bus width

Highest Functional Integration
Programmable 24-bit true-color RAMDAC up to 375 MHz pixel clock
TV Encoder Interface
Standard feature of connector logic
VIP interface (no host interface)
VESA Plug & Display for PanelLink Interface
Up to 2048x1536 32 bpp resolutions

Flexible Double Scene Technology
Companion with SiS301
Multi-display combination with dual view function: CD+CRT, CRT+CRT, and CRT+TV
NTSC/PAL interlaced display by independent frame rate in 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768 modes for NTSC and PAL under 8, 15,16, 32 bpp color modes.
With all standard VGA display modes

User-Friendly Xminator™ II Unified driver
Optimizes both Direct X 8.1 and OpenGL 1.3 for different OS, such as Windows XP/Windows 9X/Windows 2000/Windows ME
Enhanced OpenGL and D3D user options
Multiple language supported

Innovative Xmart Technology
Three exceptional features, which are XmartAGP, XmartVision, and XmartDrive; and is specially designed for 3D game enthusiast
Dynamical detection and dynamic switching between modes intelligently.

 

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