3DLABS Oxygen GVX210 - Manual (Page 7)

Introduction
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Overview
Your Oxygen GVX210 card has the following features:
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Seamless Dual-head support
Oxygen GVX210 supports dual high-resolution displays under Windows NT 4.0 and Windows
2000 from a single card, seamlessly supporting a total multi-monitor true-color desktop size of up to
4096 x 1536.
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Dual GLINT R3 rasterization processors
The dual GLINT R3 rasterization engines accelerate tasks like true-color shading, texture mapping,
anti-aliasing, and transparency operations.
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GLINT Gamma G2 geometry processing
On-board hardware geometry acceleration boosts the interactivity of large models by up to three
times and offloads the CPU for increased application performance. The 5Gflop new generation
GLINT Gamma G2 processes 100% of the OpenGL geometry pipeline in silicon, including 16
simultaneous light sources.
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Virtual Textures
Oxygen GVX210 implements 3Dlabs unique full demand-paged virtual texture sub-system in
hardware, using on-board graphics memory to cache up to 256MB of textures stored in main system
memory. Oxygen GVX210 allows you to manipulate up to 256MB of textures, seamlessly from your
favorite applications.
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PowerThreads SSE OpenGL Drivers
3Dlabs’ new-generation PowerThreads SSE and 3DNow! OpenGL drivers are fully optimized for
Pentium III and Athlon processors to dynamically load balance the geometry and lighting load
between the GLINT Gamma hardware geometry processor and host CPU. PowerThreads SSE and
3DNow! give you the power of geometry hardware plus the additional power of Pentium III’s SSE-
instructions or Athlon's 3DNow! instructions for full performance scalability with faster host CPU’s.
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Dynamic load balancing
When the GLINT Gamma processor is busy, geometry and transform calculations are automatically
shared between the CPU and the GLINT Gamma.
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Quad-buffered stereo
Left and right buffers are flipped simultaneously to preserve synchronization in your stereo 3D
images at resolutions up to 1280 x 1024.
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64 MB memory
64 MB of SGRAM memory supports high-precision, high-performance acceleration.
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High-precision, high resolution display
Your Oxygen card has a 300 MHz RAMDAC enabling flicker-free resolutions up to 2048 x 1536 on
a single monitor or 4096 x 1536 with two monitors connected.