Dual VPUs and 640MB Memory
Nvidia has announced a two-card, two-slot solution for super-fast PCI Express workstation graphics, but Creative Technology subsidiary 3Dlabs says it'll deliver unprecedented power in a single slot: Shipping later in the third quarter of the year, the Wildcat Realizm 800 ($2,799) will feature dual visual processing units (VPUs) and a unique Wildcat Realizm Vertex/Scalability Unit to deliver over 700 gigaflops of floating-point graphics processing.
Equipped with two dual-link DVI-I connectors and a stereo connector, the 16-lane graphics accelerator promises to double raw geometry and fill-rate performance over any single-processor graphics solution. The Wildcat Realizm 800 will have a 512-bit (2x256) bus to 512MB of GDDR3 graphics memory plus 128MB of onboard DirectBurst memory to transparently store commands and geometry data, totaling 640MB of onboard memory with over 64GB/sec of graphics memory bandwidth.
To add 3Dlabs' fifth-generation framelock and genlock capabilities for seamless synchronization between displays and systems for virtual reality and broadcast applications, a $650 Multiview Option Kit will include an interface card (which occupies the space of an additional slot), jumper cable to connect to the graphics accelerator, and a 6-foot framelock cable.
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