3Dlabs Oxygen GMX, User Manual

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Welcome to 3Dlabs!
Thank you for selecting a 3Dlabs
®
Oxygen
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GMX 3D graphics accelerator card!
Oxygen delivers a high-performance power boost to 3D graphics applications
running on Windows NT systems. The huge design files – with millions of
triangles, created with these applications can challenge even multiple-processor
systems. Oxygen GMX off-loads the geometry-related calculations needed to
display these triangles from the system processor to an integrated hardware
solution on the card itself, dramatically increasing the performance of your 3D
applications. Optimized software drivers support the OpenGL 1.1 specification in
order to accelerate animation, MCAD and visualization applications based on the
OpenGL standard.
Overview
Oxygen GMX is the fastest Oxygen card yet, featuring the GLINT
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Gamma
hardwired geometry engine and dual MX rasterization engines. Oxygen GMX
delivers 32-bit professional, high-precision, 2D and 3D graphics through your
AGP system, including:
• GLINT Gamma geometry processing
The 2GFlop GLINT Gamma chip makes Oxygen GMX the first 3Dlabs
card to accelerate the 3D geometry pipeline fully in hardware, performing
all vertex transformation and lighting calculations required by OpenGL
applications.
• Dual GLINT MX rasterization engines
Two GLINT MX rasterization engines accelerate tasks — like true-color
shading, texture mapping, anti-aliasing, and transparency — in parallel.
• GLINT VGA chip
3Dlabs’ GLINT VGA chip provides on-board VGA support.
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1. Monitor connector
2. GLINT VGA
3. GLINT Gamma
4. RAMDAC
5. GLINT MX
6. Memory
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7. AGP connector