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d 560 • Leading OpenGL® and Direct3D® performance • Dual independent highresolution displays • Full 3Dlabs® Acuity™ Driver Suite • Fully compatible with the Wildcat VP family • Professionalgrade reliability and quality Visual Processing Architecture 3Dlabs Acuity™ Driver Suite Wildcat VP560 uses 3Dlabs’ groundbreaking Visual The new, unified 3Dlabs Acuity Driver Suite runs across Processing Architecture to provide industrialstrength the entire Wildcat VP family and includes highly 2D and 3D performance, quality and functionality for optimized OpenGL and Direct3D drivers, a customized OpenGL and Direct3D applications for unmatched driver for 3D Studio Max and the new 3Dlabs Acuity graphics productivity. Window Manager that provides precision window control over multiple displays. Enhanced Dual-head Display Designed by Professionals for Professionals Wildcat VP560 directly drives two independent, high- 3Dlabs is the only PC graphics company solely focused resolution digital displays. An adaptor is included to on designing professionalgrade accelerators. Wildcat drive an analog display and a second analog adaptor VP560 is a part of the Wildcat VP family that continues is available freeofcharge from 3Dlabs for dual this tradition through relentless driver reliability testing analog output. Dual 10bit DACs provide flawless and constant optimization and certification of leading color representation by eliminating distracting display professional applications. artifacts. 100% Programmability Genuine programmability throughout the entire Wildcat VP560 pipeline provides a superset of traditional graphics processor functionality. Support for emerging highlevel shading languages, such as OpenGL 2.0 and Microsoft HLSL, will enable Wildcat VP560 to support new generation advanced authoring applications. High Performance Virtual Memory The highly innovative 16GB virtual memory of Wildcat VP560 shatters the limitation of onboard memory by automatically handling huge datasets, while caching essential data for fastest access. d 32-bit True Color Display Resolutions Analog Digital Resolution Refresh Hz Refresh Hz 640x480 200 60/75/85 560 800x600 200 60/75/85 1024x768 200 60/75/85 1152x864 200 60/75/85 Wildcat VP500 Visual Processor Unit (VPU) Acuity™ Driver Suite 1280x960 120 60/75/85 • Over 100 32bit processors • Unified, highly optimized, certified OpenGL and 1280x1024 120 60/75/85 • Programmable SIMD scalar arrays for geometry, Direct3D drivers that run on any Wildcat VP board 1600x1200 100 60 texture, pixel processing • Custom 3D Studio Max drivers 1920x1080 100 60 • 128bit DDR memory interface • Acuity Window Manager provides precision window 1920x1200 85 60 • Dual integrated 370MHz 10bit RAMDACs control on dual displays 1920x1440 75 • Windows XP/Windows 2000/Windows 98/Me 2048x1536 60 This list is a sample of available resolutions. These are maximum High-level Programmable Architecture • OpenGL 1.3 with shader extensions values and may not be achieved under all operating conditions. • Generalpurpose programmability throughout pipeline • DirectX 8.1 with vertex shader 1.1 and pixel shader 1.2 • Effective highlevel shading language compiler target • Prototype OpenGL 2.0 drivers on request • RISC instruction sets for efficient code generation Optimized for Leading • Automatic parallelization for software transparent Professional Applications speed and scalability • Alias|Wavefront Maya and Studio Tools • Sophisticated program flowcontrol (superset of DX9) • Autodesk AutoCAD • Autodesk Inventor Command Processor • Bentley MicroStation • Multithreading capability for multiple virtual VPUs • CoCreate One Space Designer • Circular hardware scan for active CPU threads • Dassault CATIA • 15us second taskswitch time High-Quality Video Processing • Discreet 3ds max • 3us realtime interrupt response • Hardware colorspace conversion • Discreet Combustion • Native support for YUV422 video (YUY2 and • EDS Ideas Geometry Processor UYVY) • NewTek LightWave • Eight 32bit floating point vertex processors • Highquality up/down scaling • PTC Pro/ENGINEER • Flexible surface and vertex processing • PTC CDRS • 16 accelerated lights Display Connectors • Side Effects Houdini • High precision 32bit Zbuffer • Dual DVII connectors • Softimage XSI and DS • Directly drives dual digital displays • SolidWorks SolidWorks Texture Processor • One analog display adaptor included • UG SolidEdge • Industry’s most capable texture processor • Second free analog display adaptor can be • UG Unigraphics • 64 32bit floating point and integer texture processors requested from 3Dlabs • Up to eight simultaneous textures in a single pass • DDC1/2b/2b+ support System Requirements • Programmable texture formats and filters • VESA display power management • Pentium, Athlon or compatible processor • Windows 98/Me/2000/XP Pixel Processor Package Contents • AGP 1X/2X/4X/8X Slot • 32 32bit integer pixel processors • Wildcat VP560 professional graphics accelerator • 64MB System Memory • Highly programmable antialiasing • Installation Guide • 16MB Free Disk Space • Optimized for superior antialiased lines • DVIVGA adapter • Up to four multisamples in a single pass • Second DVIVGA adaptor available free on request Support • Programmable image processing and compositing • Driver CD, including 3Dlabs Acuity Driver Suite • Three year limited warranty • Phone hotline, email and Webbased User Forum Virtual Memory Architecture • Memory used as efficient L2 cache • Seamless handling of huge datasets • Optimal buffer download performance • Automatically pages out unused buffers Flexible Dual Display • Full 2D and 3D acceleration on two displays from a single card • Dual display control panel and Window Manager • Double buffered hardware overlays In North America: In Europe: In Asia Pacific: 1901 McCarthy Boulevard Meadlake Place, Thorpe Lea Road Shiroyama JT Mori Bldg., 16F Toranomon Milpitas, CA 95035 Egham, Surrey TW20 8HE, UK 431 Minatoku, Tokyo 1056016, Japan (408) 5304700 (800) 4643348 Tel: (44) 1784470555 Tel: (81) 354034653 Memory Display Performance* Value Summary 128 MB Ultimate Visual Wildcat Independent 225M Vertices/sec The highend Wildcat VP900 VPU matched with a full 128MB of onboard 256bit Processing memory effortlessly handles the toughest applications with extreme levels Dualhead 42G AA Samp/sec VP970 DDR Performance of geometry and textures. 128 MB Powerful, Wildcat Independent 188M Vertices/sec The powerful Wildcat VP800 VPU with 128MB of memory provides the 256bit Versatile ideal mix of performance and versatility for a wide range of today’s most Dual Head 35G AA Samp/sec VP870 DDR Productivity popular professional graphics applications. 64 MB Affordable, Wildcat Independent 165M Vertices/sec The cost–effective Wildcat VP700 VPU with 64MB of memory delivers 256bit CAD-optimized highly optimized performance for geometryintensive CAD applications Dual Head 23G AA Samp/sec VP760 DDR Performance at a very competitive price. 64MB Entrylevel The newgeneration Wildcat VP500 VPU packs all the programmability Wildcat Independent 100M Vertices/sec Dual Display and functionality of the full 3Dlabs Visual processing architecture into an 128bit Dualhead 18G AA Samp/sec Workstation entrylevel package making graphics productivity and Visual Processing VP560 DDR Graphics flexibility available to everyone * Peak performance figures for comparison purposes. © Copyright 3Dlabs 2002 All trade names referenced are the service mark, trademark, or registered trademarks of their respective manufacturers. 3Dlabs and Wildcat are registered trademarks of 3Dlabs, Inc. in the United States and other countries. OpenGL is a registered trademark of SGI. DirectX is a registered trademark of Microsoft. Specifications subject to change without notice. .