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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
3Dlabs
Oxygen GVX1, 3Dlabs Oxygen RPM,
Intense3D Wildcat 3510, E&S
Lightning 1200, E&S AccelGalaxy,
Appian Jeronimo Pro, Diamond
Fire GL1
High-End,
Maximum 3D Acceleration: Cards Over $1,000
Diamond
Fire GL1
 Diamond
Multimedia and IBM have joined in a partnership to leverage the Windows
software expertise of Diamond Multimedia and the hardware design expertise
and experience of IBM graphics technology.
The first product of this partnership is the Diamond Fire GL1, which is
based on the IBM 256-bit Graphics Rasterizer, the industry's first 256-bit
graphics engine.
The Fire GL1 provides the power needed for demanding 2D and 3D digital
content creation, mechanical CAD, mechanical engineering analysis, animation,
visualization, and virtual reality applications under Windows NT.
Optimized for top 3D NT graphics applications, with user-customizable
settings, the Diamond Fire GL1 also offers support for the Streaming SIMD
Extensions (70 new instructions) in the new Intel processors, and for
multithreaded OpenGL for dual processor workstations.
The card has 32MB of SGRAM for unified frame buffer, Z-buffer and texture
storage, and can achieve 2D/3D resolutions up to 1900 x 1200. Its full
OpenGL 1.2 feature set includes: bi-linear and tri-linear MIP-mapping,
alpha blending, fogging and depth cueing, anti-aliased lines and sorted
polygons, scissoring and stippling, overlay and stencil buffers. The MSRP
for the Diamond Fire GL1 is $995.95.
Lead
on to the High-End Graphics Cards
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