ATI FIREGL T2 128MB DVI / VGA WORKSTATION GRAPHICS CARD AGP (10933)

Whether you’re designing small sub-assemblies or working with larger 3D models, the ATI FireGL T2-128 is the affordable entry level choice for 3D professionals running the leading OpenGL CAD, AEC and DCC applications under Windows or Linux operating systems. All ATI FireGL boards are certified for the leading OpenGL and DirectX 9.0 applications, with full support under Windows and Linux environments.

All advanced graphics features are available across the entire ATI FireGL product line from mobile workstations through high-end systems, and are enabled with a single graphics driver, simplifying system administration within the production environment.

Revolutionary Graphics Architecture

• 4-pixel pipeline architecture providing high performance, parallel rendering capabilities
• 24-bit for each color component (RGBA) enables true-life images to be displayed beyond 16.7M colors
• Full scene anti-aliasing
• High-speed 128MB DDR memory to meet the needs of the most demanding CAD/CAM and DCC applications
• 128-bit memory interface
• DVI-I and VGA connectors support dual displays
• AGP 4X/8X support

Optimized Software Support

• Optimized drivers certified for the leading CAD and DCC software applications
• Full support for the latest OpenGL API and Microsoft DirectX 9.0
• Hardware accelerated rendering using OpenGL Shading Language and DirectX 9 HLSL
• Robust support for Windows and Linux environments

Graphics Technology

• Powered by the FGL 9600 Visual Processing Unit (GPU)
• 128-bit high bandwidth memory architecture
• 2 parallel geometry engines
• 4 parallel pixel pipelines
• 128-bit full floating point precision
• 24-bits per RGBA component displays beyond 16.7M colors

Display Support

• DVI-I and VGA connectors support dual display
• Maximum resolution of 2048x1536 per analog display
• Independent resolution and refresh rate selection for any two connected displays
• Dual integrated 10-bit per channel 400 MHz DACs
• Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI compliant)

API And Operating systems Support

• OpenGL
• OpenGL Shading Language
• Microsoft DirectX 9.0
• DirectX 9.0 HLSL
• Windows XP/Windows 2000
• Linux

Graphic Features

Hardware acceleration of the following:

• Anti-aliased points and lines or full scene anti-aliasing (2X, 4X, 6X)
• 3D lines and triangles
• Stipple points
• Two-sided lighting
• Up to 8 light sources
• Directional and local lighting
• OpenGL overlay planes
• Occlusion culling
• 6 user defined clip planes
• OpenGL polymode functions
• 32-bit (24+8-bit stencil) Z Buffer
• Fast Z and color clears
• Full DX9 vertex shader support with 4 vertex units

SmartShader 2.0

• Programmable pixel and vertex shaders
• 16 textures per pass
• Pixel shaders up to 160 instructions with 32-bit floating point precision for each RGBA component
• Multiple render target support
• Shadow volume rendering acceleration
• High precision 10-bit per channel frame buffer support

SmoothVision 2.0

• 2X/4X/6X anti-aliasing modes
• High performance adaptive algorithm with programmable sample patterns
• 2X/4X/8X/16X anisotropic filtering modes
• Adaptive algorithm with bi-linear (performance) and tri-linear (quality) options

HYPER Z III

• 3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with early Z test
• Lossless Z-Buffer compression (up to 24:1)
• Fast Z-Buffer Clear

System Requirements

• Intel Pentium 4/Xeon, AMD Athlon/Opteron or compatible CPU
• AGP 8X/4X bus
• 128MB of system memory (256MB or more recommended)
• 300 watt or greater power supply (recommended)