3DLABS Oxygen VX1-16 - Manual (Page 7)

Introduction
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Overview
Your Oxygen card has the following features:
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The GLINT R3 rasterization engine
The GLINT R3 rasterization engine accelerates tasks like true-color shading, texture mapping, anti-
aliasing, and transparency operations.
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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.
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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.
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16 MB memory
16 MB of SDRAM 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.
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16, 24, and 32-bit linear Z-buffer
The Z-buffer provides the highest level of depth-precision, even at the highest resolutions supported.
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Full AGP sideband addressing
Sideband addressing ensures high-performance 3D acceleration through the advanced features of the
AGP bus.
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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.