MODEL- 100-505096         VENDOR- A T I
    
FEATURES- ATI 100505096-FireGL X3-256- Retail Package
       The 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 ATIs 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. 
       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.
* 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 
   - Quad-buffer stereo support 3 
* SMARTSHADER Technology 
   - 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 Technology 
   - 2X/4X/6X 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 Technology 
   - 3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with early Z test 
   - Lossless Z-Buffer compression (up to 24:1) 
   - Fast Z-Buffer Clear 
  
  -- SPECIFICATIONs -----------------------------------
INTERFACE/BUS- 32-bit AGP 8x/4x
MEMORY       - 256 MB, 256-bit 
               28.8 GB/sec. Memory Bandwidth
CHIPSET      - Powered by ATIs scalable FireGL workstation Visual 
                 Processing Units (VPU).
               750 Million Vertices/sec.
               5.4 Gpixels/sec.
               6 parallel geometry engines 
               12 parallel pixel pipelines 
               128-bit full floating point precision 
               24-bits per RGBA component displays beyond 16.7M colors 
CONNECTORs   - (2) 24-pin DVI-I ports (Stereo 3D output)
DISPLAY SUPPORT-
               Dual DVI-I supports any combination of digital and analog 
                 displays.
               Maximum resolution of 2048x1536 per display (dual mode).
               3840 x 2400 support (dual link)
               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 & HDCP compliant) 
API & OPERATING SYSTEM SUPPORT-
               OpenGL 1.5 + extensions 
               OpenGL Shading Language 
               Microsoft DirectX 9.0 
               DX9 HLSL 
               Windows XP/Windows XP64/Windows 2000 
               Linux 32/Linux 64 
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)