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MillimeterProducts: 3DLabs
Jul 1, 2004 12:02 PM, By Dan Ochiva
3DLabs goes Wildcat
The continuing graphics one-upmanship between ATI and Nvidia has drawn so much attention over the past few years that many have relegated 3DLabs to the sidelines, figuring that the company, which has no consumer graphics card sales to power R&D, couldn't keep up.
Not so. With the June release of the PCI Express-based Wildcat Realizm 800, the Milpitas, Calif.-based company is “back with a vengeance,” says 3DLabs President Hock Leow. Describing it as the fastest professional PCI Express-based graphics accelerator, Leow says the card delivers more than 700 GFLOPS of floating-point graphics processing, about double the raw graphics performance offered by any competing pro graphics card. (PCI Express is the next-gen connection after AGP.)
Built around the Realizm vertex/scalability unit and dual Wildcat Realizm visual-processing units, the 800 integrates 128MB of onboard DirectBurst memory to store commands and geometry data for boosting geometry-intensive apps for a total of 640MB of onboard memory, enough to provide more than 64GBps of total graphics memory bandwidth. www.3dlabs.com
