***3Dlabs Launches Wildcat II 5110
(February 13)
3Dlabs has announced the availability of the Wildcat II 5110 – a
professional 3D graphics accelerator. The Wildcat II 5110
incorporates the latest evolution of 3Dlabs' ParaScale
architecture; integrating multiple geometry and rasterization
pipelines into a single accelerator. The Wildcat II 5110 will
initially be available through 3Dlabs' OEM partners.
The Wildcat II 5110 has been optimized for the Pentium 4
processor-based workstations, taking advantage of PCU performance
and bus bandwidth increases. The dual-pipeline architecture of
the Wildcat II 5110 includes a tuned geometry accelerator, along
with a rasterization engine and bus interface chipset for use
with AGP Pro 4X slots. The result is high Viewperf and real-world
application performance. Dedicated DirectBurst, frame buffer and
texture memory offer a total of 144 MB of onboard memory for
image quality and performance.
Wildcat II 5110 delivers hardware-accelerated 3D volumetric
texturing, OpenGL 1.2 compliant image processing, SuperScene full
scene-based anti-aliasing and VGA and DVI-I outputs that can
provide single-board dual-screen capability under Windows 2000.
www.3dlabs.com
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