The S3 Trio range were popular video cards for personal computers and were S3's first fully integrated graphics accelerators. As the name implies, three previously separate components were now included in the same ASIC: the graphics core, RAMDAC and clock generator.

S3 Graphics, Ltd. was an American computer graphics company. The company sold the Trio, ViRGE, Savage, and Chrome series of graphics processors. Struggling against competition from 3dfx Interactive, ATI and Nvidia, it merged with hardware …

Jul 29, 1997 · A summary of the Trio range is listed below: Trio64 - first version of the chip, launched in late 1994. PCI or VESA Local Bus only. Trio64V+ - Trio32 - cost-effective variant, with 1 MB or 2 MB DRAM on a 32-bit memory path. Same 135 MHz RAMDAC as Trio64/64V+.

Aug 24, 2023 · To that end, S3 released the Trio chip series a year later, which integrated the graphics acceleration circuits, with the RAMDAC and clock generator. The result was a notable reduction in costs...

Sep 1, 1998 · The Trio 64 (or Trio64), also known as the S3 86C764, was S3's attempt to integrate a RAMDAC, clock generator and graphics core into their Vision864 chip. In 1994, it went up directly against ATI's fully 64-bit mach64 GX chip. Trio64 can be found on these graphics cards: Diamond Stealth 64 VLB DRAM; A-Trend ATC-2125

Trio3D offered great 2D and video acceleration with it's new 128 bit engine. S3 however, did not go into details describing 3d engine. There are two clear reasons for that- different positioning and ancient Virge architecture. Fortunately, there were significant features added to stay in touch with the rapid development.

S3 Trio 3D/2X The ViRGE is the first S3 chip with 3D acceleration support and launched in 1996. Aside from the 3D hardware, it is quite similar to the Trio64V+.

Jan 1, 1996 · Designed by Deksor, computerguy096 and Zago. (c) 2019-2025 All wrongs reversed.

Sep 6, 2011 · Trio 3d is Virge rebranded as business accelerator. It fixed the blending bugs of Virge. The 2x version has its own drivers and can do better in some geometry tests, so I think small improvements happened.

Nov 1, 2018 · The S3 Trio range were popular graphics chipsets for personal computers and were S3's first fully integrated graphics accelerators. As the name implies, three previously separate components were now included in the same ASIC: the …