VX1-1600SW Graphics Accelerator
32 MB Professional Graphics for the Silicon Graphics 1600SW Flat Panel Monitor


The Oxygen® VX1-1600SW is a new variant of the award-winning Oxygen VX1 professional graphics accelerator that has been engineered to directly drive the acclaimed Silicon Graphics® 1600SW flat panel at a stunning, all-digital, 1600x1024 wide-format resolution.

Product Specifications

 

The Oxygen VX1-1600SW combines 3D Labs outstanding 2D and PowerThreads™ OpenGL® 3D performance with a dedicated LVDS output connector for driving the 1600SW without the need for an external adapter - creating an ideal display solution for discerning business, technical, and creative professionals. Unlike graphics cards based on gaming technology, the Oxygen VX1-1600SW is a true professional graphics solution with 3D Labs renowned OpenGL quality and extensive application certifications for trouble-free.

Features and Benefits

Standard VGA and LVDS Display Connectors
Auto sensing display connectors for straightforward direct connection to a standard analog display or the Silicon Graphics 1600SW flat panel monitor.

Outstanding Display Quality
Only the Silicon Graphics 1600SW display packs all-digital fast pixel response for flawless real-time interactivity, a wide-format aspect ratio for displaying two side-by-side pages, 110 dpi dot pitch, 3X the brightness and 5X the contrast of CRTs in a stylish, award-winning space-saving design.

Professional GLINT R3 Processor
Professional quality, unified 2D, 3D and video processing and hardware accelerated volumetric rendering.

32 MB of Onboard SGRAM Memory with Virtual Texturing
Oxygen VX1-1600SW acts as a full 256 MB graphics card while caching textures in the onboard high-speed SGRAM memory for smooth graphics interaction on the high-resolution 1600SW screen.

Multithreaded PowerThreads OpenGL Drivers
3D Labs PowerThreads OpenGL drivers are fully optimized for Intel Pentium and AMD Athlon processors to maximize geometry throughput. The multithreaded architecture of PowerThreads unleashes the power of single or multiple CPU systems.

Over 50 Application Certifications
Oxygen boards are certified with all key professional CAD and DCC applications.

Fully Tested and optimized On All Leading Professional Applications
DCC applications including: 3D Studio Max, Houdini, Maya, 3D Studio Viz, Lightscape, Softimage XSI CAD applications including: ArchiCAD, Co-Create, Pro/ENGINEER, AutoCAD, I-DEAS, SolidWorks, CATIA, MicroStation J, Unigraphics.

Silicon Graphics 1600SW Display

  • 17" diagonal (19" CRT equivalent)
  • 1600x1024, 16:10 wide format display
  • Proprietary LVDS digital interface
  • 110 dpi dot pitch
  • LCD backlight color temperature control for enhanced color matching and dynamic range

GLINT R3 Rasterization Processor

  • Unified 2D, 3D and video processing
  • 128-bit memory bus architecture
  • Integrated 300 MHz RAMDACs
  • 7 independent DMA engines provide low CPU utilization
  • Integrated SVGA Controller

PowerThreads OpenGL Drivers

  • PowerThreads OpenGL ICD with full Intel SSE and AMD 3DNow! optimizations
  • OpenGL 1.1 ICD (1.2 ready)
  • Multithreaded, multiprocessor system optimized

Professional 3D Rendering

  • Complete OpenGL 1.2 functionality in silicon
  • Full OpenGL overlays
  • Single pass bump-mapping, per-pixel lighting
  • High-quality Gouraud shading
  • Perceptively correct bilinear and trilinear filtering with per-pixel mip-mapping
  • Dual bilinear mip-mapped textures in a single pass
  • 2048 x 2048 x 32 maximum individual texture size
  • OpenGL 1.2 volumetric rendering with up to 8-way filtering
  • Source and destination alpha blending
  • Fogging and Depth Cueing
  • Anti-aliased lines and polygons
  • Full-scene anti-aliasing
  • Hardware scissoring, stippling and stencil buffers
  • GID clipping for efficient window management
  • 32 bit Z-buffering

Integrated Video Processing

  • Bilinear filtered playback re-scaling
  • Hardware YUV-RGB conversion
  • Hardware MPEG-2 Motion Compensation

Virtual Texturing Memory Management

  • Full virtual memory management unit in GLINT R3 silicon
  • Enables the board to act as a full 256 MB graphics card

Memory

  • 32 MB of unified high-speed SGRAM for framebuffer, Z-buffer and texture memory

Board Physical

  • Short-card ATX form-factor
  • PCI 32-bit 33/66 MHz Version 2.1

Connectors

  • DB-15 analog display connector
  • LVDS 1600SW panel connector
  • 1/4" jack stereo connector
  • Autoselect between analog and digital connectors under Windows NT and Windows 2000

Stereo Support

  • True Quad-buffered Stereo support on CRT displays up to 1280x1024 true-color, 160 Hz refresh rate (Stereo not supported on Silicon Graphics 1600SW Display)
  • Independent Z buffer for left and right eye

Drivers

  • Windows NT 4.0 with PowerThreads OpenGL ICD
  • Windows 2000 with PowerThreads OpenGL ICD and DirectX 7.0
  • Windows 98 with PowerThreads OpenGL ICD and DirectX 7.0
  • DDC2B support on all operating systems

Advanced Control Panel

  • Point-and-click optimization of system configuration for key professional applications

System Requirements

  • 100% IBM-compatible PC
  • Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon processor or compatible
  • IBM compatible motherboard with an open PCI slot
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 or NT 4.0 with Service Pack 5 or higher
  • 64 MB System memory
  • 16 MB free disk space

Warranty

  • Three (3) years parts and labor limited warranty

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