CS08 3DLabs Permedia
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This item is from the PC 3D Graphics Accelerators FAQ, by Blair MacIntyre with numerous contributions by others. (v1.2).
CS08 3DLabs Permedia
The information I currently have is from the 3DLabs home page at http://www.3dlabs.com/
See section CS01 (3DLabs GLINT 300SX) for more pointers to 3DLabs.
PERMEDIA is a high performance graphics processor that balances high quality 3D texturing and graphics performance with leading edge Windows, Video and SVGA acceleration. Based on a proven low-cost and scaleable architecture, PERMEDIA pervasive 3D and multimedia applications, including: games, animation, authoring, web browsing, design, visualization, publishing and general multimedia applications.
PERMEDIA sets the standard for 3D and multimedia acceleration, making it the ideal solution to meet the increasingly pervasive need for balanced 3D and multimedia acceleration - and all in a single, low cost PCI device.
Pervasive 3D & Multimedia Features
* 25M pixels/sec - textured, bilinear filtered with perspective
* 500K polygons/sec - textured, bilinear filtered with perspective
* Balanced 3D feature set
* Ideal for games and pervasive 3D
o High quality texture mapping
o Smooth and Flat shading
o Optional Z-buffer
o Fog and depth cueing
o Polygon based with sprites
* Standard setting Windows acceleration
* Accelerated video playback
* Fast on-chip SVGA
* Optimized software drivers
* Register level interface
* Low-cost PCI design
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