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Today in DCC Workstation
3D
Graphics Cards for DCC
Intro,
Why Accelerate?, What
to Look For, PCI vs. AGP
Entry-Level,
Low-Cost, High-Speed 3D Acceleration: Sub $300 Cards
Mid-Range,
High-Speed 3D Acceleration: Sub $1000 Cards
High-End, Maximum
3D Acceleration: Cards Over $1,000
HP
VISUALIZE-fx2+, -fx4+, and -fx6+, Intense3D
Wildcat 4000, Intense3D Wildcat
4105, Intense3D Wildcat 4110,
3Dlabs Oxygen GVX210, 3Dlabs
Oxygen GMX2000, ELSA GLoria
XXL, Evans & Sutherland Tornado
3000
ELSA GLoria XXL
 Based
on the Glint GMX 1000 chipset, including 3Dlabs' Glint Gamma, and using
an AGP interface, the Gloria XXL is built for high-end MCAD and animation.
It is capable of accelerating 3.3 million 25-pixel polygons per second
with full geometry transformation, lighting calculations (16 lights supported
in hardware), texture coordinate generation and high-quality fog calculation
in hardware (trilinear MIP-mapping, anti-aliasing, fogging, overlay, stencil,
alpha planes).
Users can work on power-hungry and texture-intensive 3D models in real-time
without experiencing a geometry bottleneck.
The GLoria-XXL is perfected for 3D Studio MAX/VIZ (MAXtreme driver), Mechanical
Desktop, SOFTIMAGE 3D, Pro/ENGINEER, Maya for Windows NT, I-DEAS, MicroStation
95, and many more. For 3D Studio MAX this provides the benefit of fast
object editing and the horsepower to manipulate entire scenes.
Configured with a 16MB VRAM frame buffer and 24MB of EDO-RAM (expandable
to 40MB), the GLoria-XXL provides 48-bit local buffer memory for 32-bit
Z-buffering and texture mapping. This means up to 56MB of memory for intensive
textures, and display resolutions up to 1920 x 1080 in true color. The
GLoria-XXL's buffer interface enables simultaneous use of 3D features,
including front and back buffering, stenciling, fast clear planing and
graphics ID. The card also supports stereoscopic 3D imaging and 3D APIs
including OpenGL, Heidi and Direct3D. Boot VGA Support is provided by
PERMEDIA2 with 2MB SGRAM. The card also supports the VESA, DPMS, DDC2B,
and DirectDraw standards. Its MSRP is $1999.
Lead
on to the E&S Tornado 3000
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