3Dlabs Inc., Ltd., a leading innovator in professional visual processing, today announced unprecedented power and performance capabilities for professional graphics with the PCI Express-based Wildcat® Realizm™ 800. The fastest professional PCI Express-based graphics accelerator that will hit the market this year, the Wildcat Realizm 800 features a unique Wildcat Realizm Vertex/Scalability Unit (VSU) and dual Wildcat Realizm Visual Processing Units (VPU) to deliver over 700 GFLOPS of floating-point graphics processing. This doubles the raw graphics performance offered by any competing professional graphics solution. The Wildcat Realizm 800, and the AGP 8x-based Wildcat Realizm 100 and 200 announced today in a separate release all deliver industry-leading programmability to OpenGL® Shading Language and Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 HLSL shader programs. The Wildcat Realizm 800 is slated for availability in the third calendar quarter of this year at an MSRP of US$ 2,799.

3Dlabs also announced a compelling combination of features and value with the Wildcat® Realizm™ 100 and 200 professional graphics accelerators. The AGP 8x-based Wildcat Realizm 100 and 200 pair the new, cutting-edge Wildcat Realizm Visual Processing Unit (VPU) with up to 512 MB of onboard GDDR3 memory, more than any competitive offering to date. Like the powerful Wildcat Realizm 800 PCI Express-based solution announced today in a separate release, the Wildcat 100 and 200 deliver industry-leading programmability to OpenGL® Shading Language and Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 HLSL shader programs. The Wildcat Realizm 100, with an MSRP of US$ 1,249, and the Wildcat Realizm 200, with twice the memory yet priced more than 25 percent lower than the closest competitor, at only US$ 1,599, are slated for availability this August.

Wildcat Realizm 200
The Wildcat Realizm 200 boasts a VPU and 512 MB of onboard memory, the largest graphics memory available on an AGP 8x-based graphics accelerator to effortlessly handle large models and textures. Wildcat Realizm 200 is equipped with two, dual-link DVI-I connectors, which are ideal for driving multiple high-resolution professional displays from a single graphics accelerator, including the dual high-end 9.2 Megapixel displays.

Wildcat Realizm 100
The AGP 8x-based Wildcat Realizm 100 integrates a VPU and 256 MB of 256-bit high-speed GDDR3 memory for over 32 GB/second of bandwidth. Wildcat Realizm 100 is equipped with two, single-link DVI-I connectors, two DVI to VGA display adaptors and a stereo connector. Wildcat Realizm 100 delivers a solid 50 frames per second score on the Viewperf 7.1.1 UGS-03 benchmark.

Wildcat Realizm 800
The 16-lane PCI Express-based Wildcat Realizm 800 graphics accelerator doubles raw geometry and fill-rate performance over any single processor graphics solution. Wildcat Realizm 800 has a total of 512-bit bus to 512 MB GDDR3 graphics memory. Wildcat Realizm 800 also integrates 128 MB of onboard DirectBurst™ memory to transparently store commands and geometry data for boosting geometry-intensive applications for an amazing total of 640 MB of onboard memory, delivering over 64 GB/second of total graphics memory bandwidth. Wildcat Realizm 800 powers through the Viewperf 7.1.1 UGS-03 benchmark with an unprecedented and unmatched score of greater than 80 frames per second making it the ultimate ultra high-end professional graphics solution. Wildcat Realizm 800 also drives two, dual-link DVI-I connectors and a stereo connector.

Acuity Driver Suite
3Dlabs Acuity™ drivers deliver professional-level OpenGL 1.5 support, including an optimized OpenGL Shading Language compiler on both Windows and Linux®, together with full DirectX 9.0 HLSL (Vertex Shader 2.0 and Pixel Shader 3.0) support on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Acuity drivers will also be available with full 64-bit drivers for Windows XP and Linux in the third quarter of 2004.