3DLABS Oxygen VX1 - Manual (Page 7)

Overview
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Overview
Your Oxygen card has the following features:
• The GLINT R3 rasterization engine
The GLINT R3 rasterization engine accelerates tasks like true-color shading, texture
mapping, anti-aliasing, and transparency operations.
• Virtual Textures
Virtual Textures is a hardware-based, full demand-paged virtual texture storage
sub-system. With it, your Oxygen card can cache up to 256MB of textures stored in
main system memory.
• PowerThreads SSE geometry processing
PowerThreads SSE software distributes OpenGL operations across multiple CPU’s
(where available) for faster rendering of your files, and leverages the Intel® Pentium®
III and Pentium III Xeon™ Streaming SIMD extensions for optimal geometry and
lighting performance.
• 32 MB memory
32 MB of SDRAM (Oxygen VX1) or SGRAM (Oxygen GVX1) memory supports
high-precision, high-performance acceleration.
• High-precision, high resolution display
Your Oxygen card has a 300 MHz RAMDAC enabling flicker-free resolutions up to
2048 x 1536.
• 16, 24, and 32-bit linear Z-buffer
The Z-buffer provides the highest level of depth-precision, even at the highest
resolutions.
• Full AGP sideband addressing
Sideband addressing ensures high-performance 3D acceleration through the
advanced features of the AGP bus.
• SoftEngine AutoCAD support
SoftEngine enhances AutoCAD R12, R13, R14, and LT performance by up to four
times on Windows NT systems.
• Colorific screen-to-print color matching
Colorific simplifies color matching without sacrificing accuracy.
• Optimized Application Settings
Your card comes with preset driver configurations for mainstream Direct3D and
OpenGL applications. You can quickly switch between configurations at any time
with several mouse clicks on the Windows Taskbar and also create your own settings.