S3 Chrome 600

S3 Chrome 600 is a graphics processor. The S3 Chrome 600 has been tested via the Phoronix Test Suite in the configurations listed below.

OpenBenchmarking.org Results

Phoronix Information

Does Chrome Burn Through More Power Than Firefox?: With my recent work in tracking down Linux power regressions and looking at other areas of Linux power consumption, there's been a number of emails sent in by Phoronix readers concerning the power consumption of web-browsers. In particular, some users seem to think that Google's Chrome/Chromium web-browser causes the system to go through noticeably more power than Mozilla Firefox and other web-browsers.

WebGL, Web Store Now Stable For Google Chrome: For those using Google's Chrome web-browser, a new stable release is available that brings several key enhancements...

Google's Chrome Leaves Beta On Linux: Google Chrome for Linux was released this past December as a beta product, but today Google is releasing the first stable version of their Chrome web-browser for Linux. The Mac OS X version is being released today as stable too...

Google Chrome For Linux Released: Google has written in to let us know that their Chrome team has just put up an official Linux build. There's been the official Windows build of the Chrome web-browser for more than a year now, but now there are finally official Google Chrome builds for Linux and Mac OS X.

Chrome OS 0.4.223 Beta [Unofficial]: While Google's Chrome web-browser is not officially available for Linux quite yet, a beta release of the Linux-based Chrome OS is now available (EDIT: see below, it turns out this is an independent spin that is not the proper "Chrome OS"). Uploaded now is Chrome OS 0.4.223 Beta and has made it publicly available for download through this web-page both as an ISO and VMDK/VMX files for VirtualBox and VMware virtualization support.

VIA Will Not Provide An OSS Chrome 9 3D Driver: This morning VIA's Bruce Chang had submitted the DRM code for the Chrome 9 IGP with a request that it be pushed into the mainline Linux kernel. The DRM alone isn't usable to an end-user without a Mesa driver or something else to take advantage of this kernel component.