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Undoubtedly, the FireGL line also features a different memory management setup and driver development focuses more heavily on OpenGL and stability. Even 3Dlabs was unable to give me the necessary support and do not answer anymore! We can see that the ATI vector unit supports the parallel operation of a 4x bit vector unit and a bit scalar unit. Anti-aliased points and lines - Lines and points are smoothed as they're drawn in wireframe mode. Interestingly, in the documents that list the features of the FireGL X3, we see that "Full DX9 vertex shader support with 4 vertex units" is mentioned in addition to its "6 geometry engines". Two-sided lighting - In the fixed function pipeline, enabling two-sided lighting allows hardware lights to illuminate both sides of an object. This is what the hardware ends up looking like:

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The highest accuracy framebuffer that the FireGL X supports is a bit integer format, which is good enough for many applications today. This isn't of as much importance in a workstation part, as the fixed function path will be more giregl stressed, but it's worth noting that this core is based on the desktop part and we didn't pick up this information from any of our desktop briefings or data sheets.

I send it back, and I'm looking for an other card. Undoubtedly, the FireGL line also features a different memory management setup and driver development focuses more heavily on OpenGL and stability.

This can significantly speed up things like displaying pop-up windows or fireyl highlights in 3D applications. Two-sided lighting - In the fixed function pipeline, enabling two-sided lighting allows hardware lights to illuminate both sides of an object.

Log in Don't have an account? As the ATI part isn't positioned as an ultra high end workstation solution, we'll be focusing more on price performance. This is what the hardware ends up looking like: Post Your Comment Please log in or sign up to comment.

I wonder if the FireGL X3 will do the job? We can see that the ATI vector unit supports the parallel operation of a 4x bit vector unit and a bit scalar unit.

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Since the texture unit does not share hardware with either of the shader math units, ATI is able to handle theoretically more math per clock cycle ifregl its pixel shaders than NVIDIA. As soon I reduced the resolution from the main monitor to bywas everything stable, but that's not what I want, I need the maximum resolution on the main monitor.

Using the main monitor for images analyses quality control and the slave monitor for tools, I was unable to have a stable image at by pixels. This puts ATI behind when it comes to video editing, video walls, multi-system displays, and broadcast solutions.

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I cannot find it on the specs. Quad-buffered stereo 3D support - This enables smooth real-time stereoscopic image output by supporting a front-left, back-left, front-right, and back-right buffer for display.

The hierarchical z engine looks at tiles of pixels in the case of the FireGL 16x16 blocksand if the entire block is occluded, up to firebl can be eliminated in one clock. Of course, we would rather see a pipeline part, but we'll have to wait until we evaluate PCI Express graphics workstations for that. The FireGL firel only support between and shader instructions depending on the conditions, and uses fp24 for processing.

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The specs from 3Dlabs resolution table is giving by pixels maximum! This obviously indicates that 2 of the geometry engines don't handle full DX9 functionality. But we'll have to see how that pans out when we've taken a look at the numbers.

When we tackle the PCI Express workstation market, we'll bring out a clearer picture of how ATI's highest end workstation component stacks up against the rest of the competition. Sign up now Username Password Remember Me.

This is much higher quality and faster than FSAA when used for wireframe graphics, and is of the utmost importance to designers who use workstations for wireframe manipulation the majority of the 3D workstation market. This is useful for viewing cut-away objects. It's these blocks on which each quad pipe shares its efforts. While the Wildcat4 -or even the VP Pro have a very stable screen at maximum resolution.

Interestingly, in the documents that list the features of the FireGL X3, we see that "Full DX9 vertex shader support with 4 vertex units" is mentioned in addition to its "6 geometry engines".

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The overall flow of data is very similar to the Quadro, except, of course, that the ATI part runs with 12 pixel pipelines rather than I just had a bad experience with the Realizm ! As far as rasterization is concerned, ATI does not support any floating point framebuffer display types.

OpenGL overlay planes - Overlays are useful for adding to a 3D accelerated viewport without making the buffer dirty.