Editing Number Nine Visual Technology (section)

=== Number Nine Video Cards using S3 Graphics processors ===
[[File:Vision868.jpg|thumb|GXE 64 (Vision864) 2 MB DRAM]]
[[File:Number Nine Motion 331 video card.jpg|thumb|Motion 331 PCI (S3 Trio64V+)]]
Number Nine had a close business relationship with S3 Graphics throughout the 1990s. While the Imagine series GPUs and cards were Number Nine's flagship products, contemporaneously, Number Nine produced a series of less expensive video graphics cards using S3's GPUs. The S3-based cards were usually introduced in groups of three, at three price points below the Imagine cards. They carried the same model name, but different model numbers and GPUs. Except for the SR9, Number Nine's last, best S3 card, none of these video cards had heatsinks on the graphics processing chip (GPU).

The S3-based video cards were, in approximate order of introduction:
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! #9 Model !! S3 GPU !! Memory !! PC Bus Architecture !! Notes
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| GXE || 928 || 1 MB, 2 MB, 3 MB, 4 MB [[VRAM]] || ISA, VLB, PCI
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| GXE 64 || 864 (Vision864) || 1 MB, 2 MB DRAM || ISA?, VLB, PCI
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| GXE 64 Pro || 964 (Vision964) || 2 MB, 4 MB VRAM || ISA?, VLB, PCI
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| GXE 64 Trio || 764 (Trio64) || 1 MB, 2 MB DRAM || ISA?, VLB, PCI
|-
| Vision 330 || 764 (Trio64) || 1 MB, 2 MB DRAM || VLB, PCI
|-
| Motion 331 || 765 (Trio64V+) || 1 MB, 2 MB DRAM || VLB, PCI
|-
| Motion 531 || 868 (Vision868) || 1 MB, 2 MB DRAM || VLB, PCI
|-
| Motion 771 || 968 (Vision968) || 2 MB, 4 MB VRAM || VLB, PCI
|-
| Reality 332 || 325 (ViRGE) || 2 MB EDO DRAM || PCI
|-
| Reality 772 || 988 (ViRGE VX) || 2 MB, 4 MB VRAM || PCI
|-
| Reality 334 || 357 (ViRGE GX2) || 4 MB [[SGRAM]] || PCI, AGP
|-
| SR9 (SDRAM) || 394 (Savage4 LT, small heatsink on GPU) || 8 MB SDRAM || AGP || (some OEM)
|-
| SR9 (SDRAM) || 397 (Savage4 Pro, small heatsink on GPU) || 16 MB, 32 MB SDRAM || AGP || (retail)<ref>Notes on SR9 retail box.</ref>
|-
| SR9 (SGRAM) || 398 (Savage4 Xtreme, small heatsink on GPU) || 8 MB?, 16 MB SGRAM || AGP || (OEM only?)
|}