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• Virtual Texture memory management unit
• 256MB Virtual Texture address space
• Texture Unit with single pass, multi-texture capability
• Integrated 300MHz RAMDAC
• High-speed 128-bit memory interface
• 7 independent DMA engines
• Unified 2D/3D raster core
• Integrated SVGA controller

Professional 3D Rendering

• Complete OpenGL 1.2 functionality in hardware
• Virtual Texture Engine in hardware
• Up to 256MB texture space
• 2048x2048x32 maximum individual texture size
• Single pass bump-mapping, per-pixel lighting
• Gouraud shading
• Perspective-correct bilinear and trilinear filtering
• Perspective-correct per pixel MIP-mapping
• Dual bilinear mip-mapped textures in a single pass
• Source and destination Alpha Blending
• Fogging and Depth Cueing
• Anti-aliased lines and polygons
• Full-scene anti-aliasing
• Scissoring and Stippling
• Stencil buffers
• 32 bit Z-buffering
• GID Clipping

Hardware Performance

• Fill rate - 220Mtexels/sec dual bilinear mip-map textures
• Fill rate - 110Mpixels/sec trilinear mip-map texture
• Polygon setup rate - 11M polygons/sec
• Polygon rate - 2M lit, transformed, displayed, textured polygons/sec (for 500MHz Pentium III)

Board Physical Characteristics

• Short-card AGP NLX/ATX form-factor
• AGP 2X and AGP 4X compatible
• AGP - AGP Version 2.0 Compliant (Now available for order)

• 32MB of unified SDRAM framebuffer, Z-buffer and texture memory
• Up to 256MB of host memory used as a Virtual Texture store

Display

• True color resolutions up to 1920x1200 or 2048x1536
• 60Hz-120Hz screen refresh rates
• DDC2B support on all operating systems

Drivers

• Windows 98, DirectX 6.1 and OpenGL 1.1 ICD
• Windows NT 4.0 and OpenGL 1.1 ICD
• Windows 2000 ready

Advanced Control Panel

• Optimize system configuration for each professional application

Value-added Software Bundles

• Sonnetech Colorific, for accurate color calibration and matching (a $50 value)
• Cyberlink PowerDVD (a $50 value)

Video

• Bilinear filtered re-scaling
• Hardware YUV-RGB conversion
• Hardware MPEG-2 Motion Compensation

Connectors

• DB-15 analog connector

System Requirements

• 100% IBM-compatible PC with Intel Pentium Processor or compatible
• AGP compatible motherboard (AGP 2x board)
• Windows 98 or Windows 95 with 64MB system memory, 16MB free disk space
• Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 4