
| Reviews | Benchmarks | Boards | Chips |
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3D Labs Inc.
480 Potrero Avenue Sunnyvale CA 94086 USA Tel: 408 530 4700 Fax: 408 530 4701 http://www.3dlabs.com email: info@3dlabs.com |
Oxygen GMX - 3D Labs entry into board market following aquistion of Dynamic Pictures. AGP bus, dual Glint GMX chips, Glint Gamma geometry processor, GMX 2000 chip set, up to 96MB memory ($2299) |
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AccelGraphics
Evans & Sutherland 1873 Barber Lane Milpitas, CA 95035 USA Tel: 408 546 2100 Fax: 408 321 0260 email: aginfo@ag3d.com ttp://www.accelgraphics.com |
AccelGalaxy - E&S chip set, AGP only ($1499-1699)
AccelGMX 2000 - Dual 3Dlabs Glint GMX chips AGP only ($1899) AccelEclipse II - E&S/Mitsubisi 3D Pro chips AGP/PCI ($899-$1299) AccelPro MX - 3D Labs Glint MX ($999) |
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ATI Technologies Inc.
33 Commerce Valley Drive East Thornhill, ON L3T 7N6 Canada Tel: 905 882 2600 Fax: 905 882 2620 http://www.atitech.ca |
ATI Rage Magnum - Rage 128 GL chip, AGP, recently released and not yet on the benchmarks. Looks like a decent performer for the main stream business PC. |
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Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc.
San Jose, California Tel: 408 325 7000 http://www.diamondmm.com |
Fire GL 4000 - E&S REALimage + Mitsubishi
3Dpro/2mp (PCI)
Fire GL 1000 Pro - 3D Labs Permedia 2 (PCI/AGP) ($195) New Fire board to use IBM chips in exclusive deal |
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ELSA AG
Sonnenweg 11 52070 Aachen Germany Phone: +49-241-606-0 Fax: +49-241-606-1199 http://www.elsa.com |
Gloria XXL - Glint GMX/Gamma/Permedia 2 AGP/PCI
($2249)
Gloria XL - Glint GMX/Delta/S3 Trio |
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Evans & Sutherland
Corporate Headquarters 600 Komas Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84108 Tel: 801 588 1000 Fax: 801 588 4500 http://www.es.com |
Ensemble and Rhythm II board and systems announced
17 Nov 1998. Harmony, ESIG and Liberty Image Generators live at the top
of the performance and cost range.
AccelGraphics is a subsidiary of E&S. |
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Hewlett Packard
Palo Alto, CA USA http://www.hp.com/kayak |
Kayak Workstations - fx4 uses Elsa boards
Fx6 uses proprietary HP chips, these were the best performing non-SGI boards before the Intergraph Wildcat |
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Intergraph Computer Systems Inc.
Huntsville Alabama, 35894-0001 USA Tel: 800 763 0242 http://www.intergraph.com/ics |
Intense3D Wildcat ($2995+), Intense3D Pro ($1595+), RealiZm II ($1295+). Wildcat cards currently have highest Viewperf benchmark of available boards and rank with SGI Inifinite Reality workstations. |
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Leadtek Research Inc.
46723 Fremont Blvd., Fremont, CA 94538, USA Tel: (510)490-8076 Fax: (510)490-7759 email: leadtek@leadtek.com http://www.leadtek.com |
Winfast3D family - L3100 uses dual Glint MX/Gamma chips |
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Matrox Graphics Inc.
1055 St. Regis blvd. Dorval, Quebec Canada H9P 2T4 Tel.: 514 685 7230 Fax: 514 685 2853 http://www.matrox.com |
Marvel G200, Millenium G200, Mystique G200 based on MGA 200 chip set. Millenium G200 board was PC Mag Editor choice for main stream business 3D cards, even though it was not the top 3D benchmark scorer because of its 2D and multimedia abilities. |
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MaxVision Corporation
2705 Artie Street Executive Park South, Building 400 Suite 27 Huntsville, AL 35805 USA Toll Free (800)533-5805 Tel: 256 533 5800 Fax: 256 533 5801 http://www.maxvision.com |
Titan II - Dual Glint MX/Gamma AGP/PCI
Suggested by 3Dlabs for dual Glint MX on PCI bus |
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Omnicomp Graphics Corporation
1734 W.Sam Houston Pkwy. N. Houston, TX 77043 Tel: 713 464 2990 Fax: 713 827-7540 email: omninfo@omnicomp.com http://www.omnicomp.com |
Twin GMX8/20 - Dual Glint MX/Gamma AGP/PCI bus |
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Quantum3D, Inc.
2520 Mission College Blvd. Suite 202 Santa Clara, CA 95054 Phone: 408-919-9999 Fax: 408-919-9980 U.S. Toll Free: 1-888-747-1020 http://www.quantum3d.com |
Obsidian2 200S Sbi - uses dual 3DFx Voodoo2 chipsets to gain impressive texture fill rates. Before the Intergraph Wildcat, this was my board of choice for price/performance. |
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Real3D
12506 Lake Underhill Rd. MP-811 Orlando, FL 32825 USA Tel: 800 393 7730 Tel: 407 306 7302 Fax: 407 306 3358 email: real3d@real3d.com http://www.real3d.com |
Starfighter board uses aging Intel 740 chipset
for mid range mainstream PC market.
PRO 1000 - a family of Image Generator boxes |
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Silicon Graphics, Inc.
2011 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94043 USA Tel: 650 960 1980 http://www.sgi.com |
SGI workstation dominance has been strongly challenged by Intergraph, HP, and others using add-in cards. The SGI Windows NT based system due out Real Soon Now, is rumored to be an impressive response. |
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3Dfx Interactive, Inc.
4435 Fortran Drive San Jose, California 95134, U.S.A. http://www.3dfx.com |
Voodoo2, Banshee : darling of the gamers
Voodoo3 : announced Nov 98 APIs: DirectX, OpenGL, Glide, OpenGVS |
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3DLabs
480 Potrero Avenue Sunnyvale CA 94086 USA Tel: 408 530 4700 Fax: 408 530 4701 http://www.3dlabs.com email: info@3dlabs.com |
current : Permedia 2, GLint GMX, Gamma, etc.
Permedia 3 - mainstream chip due 1999 Jetstream - high end chipset due mid 1999 will compete with Intergraph Wildcat |
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Advanced Rendering Technology Ltd.
Cambridge UK Voice: +44 1223 563854 Fax: +44 1223 516520 http://www.art.co.uk |
AR250 Ray Tracing Chip - a different approach to 3d graphic chips. Not sure if or how well it will do real time. |
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ATI Technologies Inc.
33 Commerce Valley Drive East Thornhill, ON L3T 7N6 Canada Tel: 905 882 2600 Fax: 905 882 2620 http://www.atitech.ca |
ATI Rage 128GL, ATI Rage 128 VR |
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Evans & Sutherland
Corporate Headquarters 600 Komas Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84108 Tel: 801 588 1000 Fax: 801 588 4500 http://www.es.com |
REALimage 2100 chip set released 1998 |
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NVIDIA Corporation
3535 Monroe Street Santa Clara, CA. 95051 Tel: (408) 615-2500 Fax: (408) 615-2800 Email: info@nvidia.com http://www.nvidia.com |
Riva 128, 128ZX, TNT and Vanta. Riva TNT powered the boards that ranked highest in the PC Magazine benchmarks |
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PixelFusion Limited
2440 The Quadrant Aztec West Bristol BS32 4AQ UK Tel: +44 1454 878740 Fax: +44 1454 878644 http://www.pixelfusion.com |
FUZION technology - A very different approach to 3D rendering, combining massively parallel rendering and pixel programmability in a new scalable architecture. To be Launched mid 1999. |
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Rendition, Inc.
999 East Arques Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Tel: (408) 822-0100 Fax: (408) 822-0199 http://www.rendition.com |
RRedline Accelerator announced but now uncertain as company was aquired by Micron Technologies in Sept 1998 |
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SP3D Chip Design GmbH
Petersbrunner Strasse 17 D-82319 Starnberg Germany Fax: 49 8151 270 - 200 email: sales@sp3dtech.com http://www.sp3dtech.com |
new company with a new chip design boasting impressive numbers in pre-launch publicity (see Wave Report 904). Significant investment from Phillips. |
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Number Nine Visual Technology
18 Hartwell Avenue Lexington, MA 02421-3141 USA Tel: 781 674 0009 Fax: 781 869 7190 http://www.nine.com/ |
Ticket to Ride IV - mainstream PC chip, new in 1998 |
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S3 Incorporated
2841 Mission College Blvd. P.O. Box 58058 Santa Clara, CA 95052-8058 Tel: +1-408-588-8000 (operator attended) +1-408-588-8585 (automated) Fax: +1-408-980-5444 http://www.s3.com |
Savage 3D - new chip in 1998, texture compression algorithms licensed by Microsoft for DirectX 6 |