Technical Reference Guide
Compaq Deskpro EXS and Workstation 300 Personal Computers
Featuring the Intel Pentium 4 Processor
First Edition - December 2000
2-13
2.4.8 GRAPHICS
SUBSYSTEM
Each of these systems provides an AGP slot that accommodates a Type 1 or Type 2 AGP graphics
adapter (1.5-V only).
Table 2-4 lists the key features of the types of graphics adapters available as standard in these
systems:
Table 2-4.
Standard AGP
Graphics Card Comparison
Table 2-4.
Standard AGP Graphics Card Comparison
NVIDIA
GeForce2 GTS
NVIDIA
TNT2 PRO
NVIDIA
Quadro2 MXR
ELSA
GLoria II
Matrox
Millennium
G450
Std. Config. In
EXS
Wkstn. 300
Wkstn. 300
Wkstn. 300
Wkstn. 300
Recommended
for:
Hi 2D,
Entry 3D
Hi 2D,
Entry 3D
Hi 2D,
Entry 3D
Hi 2D,
Mid 3D
Multi-monitor
Hi 2D
Bus Type
AGP 4X
AGP 2X/4X
AGP 2X/4X
AGP 2X/4X
AGP 2X/4X
Mem. Amount
32 MB
16 MB
32 MB
64 MB
32 MB
Mem. Type
SDRAM
SGRAM
SDRAM
SDRAM
DDR SDRAM
DAC Speed
350 MHz
300 MHz
350 MHz
350 MHz
Max. 2D Res. @
# of colors
2048x1536
@ 16.7M
1920x1200
@ 16.7M
1920x1200
@ 16.7M
2048x1536
@ 16.7M
2048x768
@ 65K
Software
Compatibility
Quick Draw,
DCI/DirectX,
Direct Draw,
3D OGL,
MPEG 1/2
Quick Draw,
DCI/DirectX,
Direct Draw,
Direct Show,
MPEG 1/2,
Indeo
Quick Draw,
DCI/DirectX,
Direct Draw,
Direct Show,
MPEG 1/2,
Indeo
Quick Draw,
DCI/DirectX,
Direct Draw,
ActiveX,
MPEG 1/2,
OpenGL
Quick Draw,
DCI/DirectX,
Direct Draw,
MPEG 1/2,
OpenGL,
Direct 3D
Special
Features/
Accelerators
3ROP BitBLT,
Line Draw,
Color Expan.
Triangle Eng,
Anti-aliasing,
HDTV proc.,
FS Anti-
aliasing,
32b color &
stencil,
Alpha planes
Transparent
BLT,
Stretch BLT,
Polylines,
Polygons,
Fills,
32b render,
24b Z-buffer, 8b
stencil,
Anisotropic
filtering,
128b TnT
Archit.
Shading
rasterizer,
Digital vibrance
control,
32b render,
24b Z-buffer, 8b
stencil,
Anisotropic
filtering,
Twin View arch.
supporting
2-head Win. &
2-head clone,
DVD support,
24b dbl-
buffered color
planes,
8b stencil,
24b Z-buffer,
stereo support,
3ROP BitBLT,
Dual RAMDAC,
Flat & Gouraud
shading,
Anisotropic
filtering,
Perspective
Texture,
Specular
highlighting,
32b z-buffer,
2-head zoom,
2-head clone,
2-head TV,
DVD max mode
Aux. I/O
VESA I/F
VESA I/F
VESA I/F
VESA I/F
VESA I/F
Outputs
1 RGB
1 RGB
1 RGB, 1 DVI
1 RGB
2 RGB
NOTE: