ATI - FireGL V5100 128MB PCI Express

Powerful PCI Express Graphics Technology:

The FireGL Visualization series of workstation graphics accelerators is designed specifically for the new, high-bandwidth PCI Express bus, and is architected to deliver unprecedented speed and image quality for real-time visualization. True cinematic quality rendering of complex geometry is now available for compelling animation, visual effects, mechanical design and leading edge business communication.

Two Way Acceleration With Atis Single-Chip PCI Express Solution:

The bridgeless, single-chip design of the FireGL native PCI Express graphics processor fully engages all of the benefits of this interconnect standard in the safest, most cost-effective, and most reliable transition from AGP. Unlike other bridged PCI Express implementations, ATIs FireGL PCI Express products deliver full bandwidth in both upstream and downstream directions, doubling the capabilities of previous products.

Compatibility And Stability:

ATIs FireGL cards whether PCI Express x16 lane or AGP 8X are designed to accelerate 3D workstation applications based on OpenGL and Microsoft DirectX 9.0. With full certification on the leading computer aided design (CAD), architecture/engineering/construction (AEC) and digital content creation (DCC) applications, FireGL is the high performance choice for graphics professionals working in Windows or Linux based systems.

Features:

• Built on ATIs native PCI Express x16 lane architecture
• Outstanding mid-range workstation performance and quality utilizing 12 pixel pipelines and 6 geometry engines
• 128MB DDR unified graphics memory
• Dual display support via two DVI connectors
• Stereo 3D connector with quad-buffered support
• Optimized and certified for professional workstation applications based on OpenGL and Microsoft DirectX 9.0
• Windows and Linux support
• Three year warranty with toll-free advanced technical support

Graphics Technology:

• Powered by ATIs scalable FireGL workstation Visual Processing Units (GPU)
• Up to 256-bit high bandwidth memory architecture
• 2, 4 or 6 parallel geometry engines
• 4, 8 or 16 parallel pixel pipelines
• 128-bit full floating point precision
• 24-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 display (dual mode)
• 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)

API and Operating System Support:

• OpenGL 2.0 + extensions
• OpenGL Shading Language
• Microsoft DirectX 9.0
• DX9 HLSL
• Windows XP/Windows XP64/Windows 2000
• Linux 32/Linux 64

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 up to 6 vertex units
• Quad-buffer stereo support

SmartShader Technology:

• Programmable pixel and vertex shaders
• 16 textures per pass
• Pixel shaders up to 512 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

HyperZ Technology:

• 3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with early Z test
• Lossless Z-Buffer compression (up to 24:1)
• Fast Z-Buffer Clear