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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
3Dlabs Oxygen GMX2000
 The
3Dlabs Oxygen GMX 2000 is a high-end professional 3D graphics accelerator
with the GLINT GMX 2000 chipset. It offers full 3D-geometry and lighting
acceleration with scalable rasterization.
By integrating 100% of the OpenGL 1.1 geometry and rasterization pipeline
in silicon, Oxygen GMX delivers high performance for complex and demanding
CAD and authoring projects.
The card offers support for tri-linear and bi-linear texture mapping with
per-pixel perspective correction and specular lighting with full sub-pixel
precision. The dual GLINT MX rasterization processors deliver high-performance,
true-color 2D and 3D rendering and texture mapping. Complete professional
buffer support allows overlays, fogging, stencil planes, hardware window
clipping, destination alpha and anti-aliasing.
The GLINT Gamma hard-wired geometry processor delivers 2 Gflops of geometry
and lighting acceleration in silicon. The GLINT GMX 2000 chipset boosts
overall graphics performance by accelerating the entire OpenGL pipeline
in a single AGP slot. Its 96 MB of memory supports true-color screen resolutions
up to 1920 x 1080 plus plenty of on-board textures. The board provides
high-precision, true-color rendering and a 32 bit Z-Buffer.
Though it has a MSRP of $2299, the GMX 2000 can be found for a street
price of around $1500.
Lead
on to the ELSA GLoria XXL
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