3Dlabs heeft vandaag een press release losgelaten waarin ze de nieuwe Wildcat II 5110 videokaart voor workstations aankondigen. De Wildcat II 5110 heeft 'dual geometry accelerators' en een totaal van 144MB onboard geheugen om, volgens eigen zeggen, de snelste videokaart te vormen. Volgens de Viewperf 6.1.2 scores die ook in de press release te vinden zijn is de kaart tussen de 33 en 188 procent sneller dan de Quadro2 Pro en tussen de 5 en 82 procent sneller dan de FireGL2. Daarnaast heeft de kaart nog een lading leuke features zoals een soort van DualHead en SuperScene FSAA :
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- 3Dlabs®, Inc. (Nasdaq: TDDD - news) today announced the immediate availability of the next-generation Wildcat(TM) II 5110 -- the world's fastest professional 3D graphics accelerator. The Wildcat II 5110 incorporates the latest evolution of 3Dlabs' ParaScale(TM) architecture; integrating multiple complete geometry and rasterization pipelines into a single accelerator to deliver more than twice the performance of the Wildcat 4110 at a similar price point. The Wildcat II 5110 will initially be available through 3Dlabs' OEM partners.
The Wildcat II 5110 has been highly optimized for the latest Intel® Pentium® 4 processor-based workstations, taking full advantage of the latest increases in CPU performance and bus bandwidth. Dual programmable geometry accelerators deliver dramatically improved 3D graphics performance, and enable the new Wildcat II 5110 to again dominate the latest Viewperf 6.1.2 benchmarks by easily outperforming all other competing graphics products in every category (see scores below).
[...] The breakthrough dual-pipeline architecture of the Wildcat II 5110 includes a new highly-tuned geometry accelerator, along with a new rasterization engine and bus interface chipset for use with the latest AGP Pro 4X slots. The result is record-breaking Viewperf performance and never-before-seen, real-world application performance. Dedicated DirectBurst(TM), frame buffer and texture memory offer a total of 144 MB of onboard memory for unmatched image quality and performance.
In addition to record-shattering speed, the Wildcat II 5110 is engineered with high-end professional functionality and image quality not found on competing boards, to deliver the ultimate productivity for CAD and DCC end-users. Wildcat II 5110 delivers hardware-accelerated 3D volumetric texturing, OpenGL® 1.2 compliant image processing, patented SuperScene(TM) full scene-based anti-aliasing and both VGA and DVI-I outputs as standard that can provide single-board dual-screen capability under Windows 2000.