FireGL X3-256

The new turbo-charged FireGL™ X3-256 is our highest performance workstation graphics accelerator designed for AGP-based workstations. Delivering the fastest 3D performance and superior quality graphics for professional applications, this powerful card is based on ATI’s stunning graphics architecture with six parallel geometry engines and sixteen parallel rendering pipelines. The FireGL X3-256 takes the leading computer-aided design (CAD) and digital content creation (DCC) applications to a new level of interactivity.

Таблица 1: Основные характеристики графической платы ATI FireGL X3

Overview

With 256MB of GDDR3 memory and hardware accelerated rendering using OpenGL Shading Language and DirectX 9 HLSL, the FireGL X3-256 empowers 3D professionals to realize a dramatic increase in productivity and a reduction in design cycle times, without sacrificing quality. All FireGL boards are certified for the leading OpenGL and DirectX applications, with full support under Windows and Linux environments.

All advanced graphics features are available across the entire FireGL product line from mobile workstations through high-end systems, and are enabled with a single graphics driver, simplifying system administration within the production environment.

Features

Revolutionary graphics architecture

12-pixel pipeline architecture providing high performance, parallel rendering capabilities

32-bit for each color component (RGBA) enables true-life images to be displayed beyond 16.7M colors

Full scene anti-aliasing

High-speed 256MB DDR memory to meet the needs of the most demanding CAD/CAM and DCC applications

256-bit memory interface removes hardware performance bottlenecks and provides end users with faster 3D performance

Dual DVI-I connectors support any combination of digital flat panel and VGA displays

Dual link support ultra-high resolution 9Mpixel displays

Quad-buffered stereo 3D output enables even more realistic experineces

AGP 4X/8X support

Optimized Software Support

Optimized drivers certified for the leading CAD and DCC software applications

Full support for the latest OpenGL® API and Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0

Hardware accelerated rendering using OpenGL Shading Language and DirectX 9 HLSL

Robust support for Windows® and Linux® environments

Specifications

Graphics technology

Powered by ATI’s parallel processing Visual Processing Unit (GPU)

256-bit high bandwidth memory architecture

6 parallel geometry engines

16 parallel pixel pipelines

128-bit full floating point precision

32-bits per RGBA component displays beyond 16.7M colors

Display support

Dual DVI-I supports any combination of digital and analog displays

Maximum resolution of 2048x1536 per analog display

Dual link support for ultra-high resolution 3740 x 2400 displays

Independent resolution and refresh rate selection for any two connected displays

Dual integrated 10-bit per channel 400 MHz DACs

Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI compliant)

Quad-buffered stereo 3D support

API and Operating systems support

OpenGL®

OpenGL Shading Language

Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0

DirectX® 9.0 HLSL

Windows® XP/Windows® 2000 

 Linux®

Graphic Features

Hardware acceleration of the following:

Anti-aliased points and lines or full scene anti-aliasing (2X, 4X, 6X)

3D lines and triangles

Stipple points

Two-sided lighting

Up to 8 light sources

Directional and local lighting

OpenGL overlay planes

Occlusion culling

6 user defined clip planes

OpenGL polymode functions

32-bit (24+8-bit stencil) Z Buffer

Fast Z and color clears

Full DX9 vertex shader support with 4 vertex units

SmartShader™

Programmable pixel and vertex shaders

16 textures per pass

Pixel shaders up to 160 instructions with 32-bit floating point precision for each RGBA component

Multiple render target support

Shadow volume rendering acceleration

High precision 10-bit per channel frame buffer support

SmoothVision™

2X/4X/6X full scene anti-aliasing modes

High performance adaptive algorithm with programmable sample patterns

2X/4X/8X/16X anisotropic filtering modes

Adaptive algorithm with bi-linear (performance) and tri-linear (quality) options

HYPER Z™ III+

3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with early Z test

Lossless Z-Buffer compression (up to 24:1)

Fast Z-Buffer Clear

System requirements

Intel® Pentium® 4/Xeon™, AMD Athlon®/Opteron™ or compatible CPU

AGP 8X/4X bus

128MB of system memory (256MB or more recommended)

Installation software requires CD-ROM drive

300 watt or greater power supply (recommended)

Warranty and Support

3-year limited product repair/replacement warranty

Workstation level technical support via email and phone

Advanced parts replacement option