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"3Dlabs, which has been a perennial leader in the ultra high-end of the professional graphics market, broadened its portfolio and thus market opportunity last year with the introduction of the Wildcat VP family of programmable graphics accelerators," said Kate Sullivan, workstation research analyst at IDC. "With the launch of the Wildcat VP990 Pro, 3Dlabs is poised to grow both market share and volume in application segments like DCC, CAD, and other visual processing segments, where the highest levels of onboard memory and performance are crucial."
Utilizing 3Dlabs' proven Visual Processing Architecture, the Wildcat VP990 Pro is packed with 512 MB of onboard memory, the largest memory configuration currently available on a workstation graphics accelerator. Yet, the board can successfully be installed in any standard AGP 4x or AGP 8x graphics slot with no unusual power or cooling requirements. The large onboard physical memory works collaboratively with the Wildcat VP's virtual memory architecture to cache immense amounts of geometry, texture and pixel data locally onboard. CAD designers with large models, DCC professionals generating texture-rich animations, and visual simulation users moving in real-time though large databases can all significantly benefit from the massive memory capacity of the Wildcat VP990 Pro.
Real Support for high-resolution displays
The large memory reserves that the Wildcat VP990 Pro offers are ideal for driving high-resolution displays. For example, high-end nine mega pixel displays easily absorb over 100 MB of graphics memory simply driving the screen, and that is before any geometry or textures are stored and processed. Enabling high-quality anti-aliasing tends to consume enormous amounts of graphics processing power and memory. As the first professional graphics accelerator available with 512 MB of onboard memory, the Wildcat VP990 Pro provides an extra boost of memory facilitating high-quality, anti-aliasing utilization on a broader spectrum of professional displays than previously obtained.