Wildcat Realizm 800 | Computer Graphics World
This year, PCI Express truly has taken the graphics community by storm. The technology, although less than one year old, already is poised to replace AGP as the standard graphics bus for the PC. As such, a whole new crop of graphics cards has been released to take advantage of the technology. Now shipping, 3Dlabs’ Wildcat Realizm 800 brings the Wildcat line of cards to the PCI Express bus. The Realizm 800 takes advantage of PCI Ex-press to provide excellent performance.
3Dlabs has been in the graphics business for quite some time, and the Wildcat line of cards has a stellar past, starting its life under Intergraph and continuing with 3Dlabs to the present. Wildcat cards have historically been at the cutting edge of technology, and the Realizm 800 is no ex-ception. This new card lives up to its lineage and is, without a doubt, one of the fastest cards on the market today.
| The Wildcat Realizm 800 tops out 3DLabs’ line of professional graphics cards by providing fast performance, making it a powerful solution for 3D authoring. |
Two visual processing units (VPUs) and a vertex/scalability unit (VSU) for geometry processing, as well load balancing, drive the Realizm’s graphics performance. This card has a whopping 640MB of RAM, which should be more than enough for most applications. The RAM is divided into 512MB of fast VPU RAM and 128MB of RAM for the VSU to cache instructions and geometry. All RAM in the system is GDDR3, which provides good throughput.
In terms of size, the Wildcat is the SUV of graphics cards. The card is not only full length, but also double width. The extra width is needed for the massive heatsink and cooling duct attached to the card. Make sure that the inside of your system has enough room for this large graphics card. I installed and tested the Wildcat board in a Hewlett-Packard xw8200 dual-Xeon workstation, and it fit like a glove.
The Realizm 800 requires a 16x PCI Express slot, which is the standard for graphics cards. In addition to the PCI Ex-press connector, the card requires additional power through a standard four-pin power connector.
The card itself draws about 150 watts of power, so be sure to have a beefy power supply. On the back of the card sit two DVI ports, as well as a stereo connector. For those who work in real-time and video applications, 3Dlabs sells a Multiview add-on card to provide genlock, synchronized framebuffer swap, and synchronized refresh rate. It enables a card to sync with video, or multiple cards in multiple machines to operate in concert.
Software and drivers are provided on a CD, although the latest drivers are available via the 3Dlabs Web site. The card is supported under Windows XP and 2000, as well as Red Hat Linux. I tested a pre-release version of the card, and typical with new technology, I had a few software issues. But these were quickly solved by downloading the latest drivers and updating the BIOS to the workstation. Once I was up and running, the card performed well. Application performance also was smooth. I tested the card against several applications, including Alias’s Maya and Discreet’s 3ds max, and discovered no problems.
Display quality was excellent, and I liked the display manager that comes with the drivers. This feature provides the user a lot of flexibility when configuring multiple displays. On a single display, the Realizm 800 attains up to 3840×2400 resolution and can support the new high-end 9.2-megapixel displays.
To test the card’s raw performance, I benchmarked it using Spec Viewperf 8.0 on an HP xw8200 workstation. The Realizm 800 was particularly fast in the 3ds max and Maya tests, scoring 37.57 and 45.97, respectively. Another terrific score was 42.3 on the UGS-01 test, which simulates Unigraphics’ CAD application. The overall numbers were excellent, making the Realizm 800 the fastest OpenGL card I have tested so far.
Overall, 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 800 is a card aimed squarely at the high end. The card was exceptionally fast and perform-ed well in the 3D authoring applications I used to test it. It has a few drawbacks, such as its physical size and the price.
At $2799, the Wildcat Realizm 800 is at the very top end of the pricing curve. You could get a card with slightly less performance for roughly half the price, but top performance never comes cheap. If you need extremely high-quality graphics with cutting edge performance, 3Dlabs’ Wildcat Realizm 800 is certainly a great choice.
George Maestri is president of Rubberbug, a Los Angeles-based animation studio specializing in character animation.
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Price: $2799
Minimum System Requirements: Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon, or compatible processor, Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP or Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition (3.0 or later), one 16x PCI Express slot with an adjacent empty slot for cooling, 150W power support, 512MB of system memory, and 25MB of free disk space.
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- Optimized for Running Multiple Applications Simultaneously
— Designed to minimize CPU load while driving the graphics pipeline at maximum capacity
— Innovative 16GB virtual memory support shatters the limits of onboard memory by automatically handling huge datasets while caching essential data for fastest access - Maximum scalability, Maximum Performance
— Wildcat Realizm 200 ‘s Visual Processing Unit (VPU)offers industry-leading performance and programmability capabilities
— Huge fragment shader program support for 256 K individual instructions with looping and conditionals where competing technologies only support 64 K
— Fragment processor has direct access to virtual memory, enabling generalized algorithms to be efficiently computed using large data buffers without concern for memory fragmentation
— Shader programs can access 32 different buffers in one pass, allowing complex algorithms to execute efficiently using an unlimited number of samples - Video Display Capabilities
— Industry ‘s only isochronous command channel with fast context switching and automatic hardware scheduling to insure «glitch-free» effects with real-time video.
— Dual-link, dual display for today’s megapixel display requirements. Capable of driving resolutions of 3840 x 2400 at the highest refresh rates. - Optimized Dual-Display Acceleration
— Innovative VPU design allows improved graphics acceleration for your dual-display configurations
— High-resolution support and dual-display support give you more visual real estate on the desktop - Windows Acuity Manager
— Next generation display management technology for application and performance optimization and control
— Ergonomic, dual taskbar minimizes cursor and mouse movement for dual displays or 9.2-megapixel (3840 x 2400) displays - Minimal System Load =Maximum Graphics Acceleration
— 3Dlabs professional graphics driver works in close concert with Wildcat Realizm hardware to reduce your system CPU and memory load for all display-related activities - Unmatched VPU Performance
— The most advanced Visual Processing Unit (VPU) available today offering unparalleled levels of performance, programmability, accuracy, and fidelity
— Optimized floating-point precision across the entire pipeline - The Most Memory Available on Any Graphics Card
— Handles more textures without stressing your system memory
— Provides ample frame buffer to support high-resolution,true-color displays, with SuperScene antialiasing for the ultimate in visual quality
— Precise floating-point conversions across the entire graphics pipeline maximize image accuracy, storage, and processing capabilities with zero performance impact
— Enough memory to provide off-screen memory to support Pbuffers while providing abundant memory for highly detailed,true-color 2D and 3D textures — all simultaneously - High Onboard Bandwidth
— High onboard bandwidth means professional performance
— 512-bit memory bus delivers the highest possible throughput - Hardware Accelerated 3D Volumetric Textures
— 3D textures are applied throughout the volume of a model, not just on the external surfaces -and it happens in real-time and it happens in real-time for the precision display capabilities you demand - Supports 32 Lights in Hardware
— Designed to minimize any performance hits to your CPU and system memory - Extreme Geometry Performance
— Manipulate the most complex models easily in real-time
— Wildcat Realizm’s VPU features full floating-point pipelines from input vertices to displayed pixels to offer you unparalleled levels of performance, programmability, accuracy and fidelity - Image Quality
— Genuine real-time image manipulation and rendering using advanced programmable featuers so your projects are on spec and on time
— Graphics architecture is able to directly display 16-bit floating-point pixels with 3-channel, 10-bit video-rate alpha blending, 10-bit LUT and 8-bit WIDs
— Independent dual 400 MHz 10-bit DACs, creating the highest levels of displayed color resolution or performance - 36-Bit High-Precision Floating-Point Vertex Pipeline
— Wildcat Realizm delivers images so accurate you won’t worry about display anomalies or rendering errors on your next time-critical masterpiece - High-Speed Rendering
— At 12 pixels per clock cycle, Wildcat Realizm 200 processes pixels at astounding speeds
— Virtual shader program memory support up to 256K fragment shader instructions plus flow control and loops
— With Wildcat Realizm you get unmatched OpenGL Shading Language performance and functionality to insure robust execution and acceleration for industrial-strength shaders — from the company that initiated OpenGL Shading Language development - Remove the boundaries to your view of the world
— Innovative, advanced display features coupled with maximum programmability let your creativity take you further - 64-Bit Hardware Accumulation Buffers
— Accelerated performance of accumulation buffer operations used in depth-of-field, motion blur, shadow,and multi-pass rendering algorithms.
- Stereo Support
— Provides a tangible appearance of depth, enhancing visual immersion into the 3D environments you create. - Multiview Option with Framelock/Genlock
— Most advanced framelock/genlock capbilities in the industry
— Facilitates multi-system video walls and supports genlock to a house sync source
— Supports tri-level sync for HDTV,bilevel sync for NTSC and PAL
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3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 500 — perhaps the «last of the Mohicans»
Professional video accelerators, albeit single copies, but still quite regularly enter the Ukrainian market, which cannot but rejoice. Suffice it to recall that just a year or two ago, only a few knew about the 3Dlabs trademark. However, over the past 12 months, this is already the fourth product from the Wildcat series that has been in the Test Lab.
Processor 3Dlabs P25
Process technology 130 nm
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Memory 256 MB, GDDR3
ROM 64 KB
RAMDAC 2 × 400 MHZ, 10 bits
PCI EXPRES 16x
Exit 9000 2 × DVI (Support for Street)0002 Maximum video mode 2456 × 1536, 60 HZ
Power consumption 75 W
Pixel conveyors
Verpy conveyors 6
DirectX 9.0 (PS 2.0, VS 2.0)
OpenGL 2.0 (HLSL Support)
Estimated price $1125
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The Wildcat Realizm 500 sits in between two product lines based on the previous generation P20 GPU (Realizm 200/800). Such models have proven themselves in the market not so much because of their quality support in CAD / CAM applications, but because of their ability to work with large screens and composite media portals. The new device is somewhat different in functionality and positioning from the aforementioned ones.
First of all, the P25 graphics chip installed here was originally created for the PCI Express interface, thanks to which we can talk about it as the first 3Dlabs product with native support for a serial graphics bus. Today’s top product Realizm 800 is also designed for installation in a PCI Express port, but it uses an integrated AGP-to-PCI-E bridge for this, which does not allow using the advantages of this high-speed interface. The second significant feature of Realism 800 is the lack of support for an external Wildcat Realizm Multiview expansion card that implements Framelock and Genlock functions (synchronization of clipboards of several video systems for composite displays, as well as synchronization by an external source), which can be explained by the manufacturer’s unwillingness to cause internal competition with the 200 / series 800. On the other hand, the Realizm 500 has the required connector for Multiview, and we don’t see any particular problems in using this technology, although with certain limitations.
It, in particular, is the lack of a bidirectional DVI-transmitter, which again is designed to artificially limit the multimedia capabilities of this accelerator. Therefore, in order to increase the attractiveness of Realizm 500, the vendor would have to provide the buyer with some other bonus, in addition to powerful video outputs. And, in our opinion, speed, very stable drivers and certification from the vast majority of companies producing professional software and workstations should be considered as such. The 3Dlabs programming team has managed over the years to hone their skills in writing presets for popular 3D modeling and CAD / CAM packages so much that the Wildcat series has been demonstrating the best performance for many years, with a significant lag in technical characteristics from similarly priced products. FireGL or Quadro. So, for example, a special driver for 3dsmax allows you to perform OpenGL rendering of a complex animation clip almost two and a half times faster than competitors’ hi-end accelerators.
Also, to run OpenGL applications, the driver of the new accelerator already has the ability to process a larger number of OpenGL extensions in hardware — 125 versus 108 for the 200/800 series.
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And everything would be fine if not for one «but». The future of 3Dlabs professional accelerators is now in question — in early spring 2006, its owners from Creative Labs officially announced the reorientation of the business from OpenGL accelerators to the production of chips to accelerate the processing of multimedia applications in portable devices. At the same time, about a hundred employees were fired (mostly engineers who created the Realizm series). It is sad to realize that people who produce equipment for constructing the most complex technology (up to space systems) now have to think about how to create a product that accelerates the output of 3D graphics on an MP3 player. But nothing can be done, the market of the latter is much larger and more profitable than the segment of expensive workstations.
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Therefore, in conclusion, I would like to note that Wildcat Realizm 500 is an excellent product, and it is a pity if it turns out to be the latest 3Dlabs development for professional use.
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| General characteristics | |
| Video card type | professional |
| GPU | 3Dlabs Wildcat Realism 200 |
| Interface | AGP |
| GPU codename | P20 |
| Process | 130 nm |
| Number of monitors supported | 2 |
| Maximum resolution | 3840×2400 |
| Specifications | |
| GPU frequency | 200 MHz |
| Video memory size | 512 MB |
| Video memory type | GDDR3 |
| Video memory frequency | 800 MHz |
| Video memory bus width | 256 bit |
| RAMDAC frequency | 400 MHz |
| Connection | |
| Connectors | DVI x2, TV-out |
| Math block | |
| Maximum number of pixel/vertex pipelines | 12/6 |
| Pixel/vertex shader versions | 3. |
| Standards | DirectX 9.0, OpenGL 2.0 |
| Additional features | |
| Additional power required | yes |
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