MS-8801 Trident
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Blade 3D 9880
Graphics Accelerator
User’s Guide
3D Acceleration
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Integrated 1 million triangle/s set-up engine reduces CPU
and bus bandwidth requirements
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4K on-chip texture cache
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Edge anti-aliasing
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Modulate alpha function
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Composite alpha modulate
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32-bit color rendering
Rendering Engine
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Gourard and Flat Shading
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Scene Anti-aliasing
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OpenGL compliant blending for fog and depth cueing
Texturing Engine
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Anisotropic, Tri-linear, Bi-Linear, Point-Sampled Filtering
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Perpective Correction
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Mip-Mapping with 11 Levels-of-Detail
Full Software Support
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WHQL Certified Driver
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Windows
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95 and 98 Display Drivers
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Windows
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NT 3.5, 4.0, and 5.0 Display Drivers
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Direct3D, DirectDraw, and DirectVideo
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OpenGL ICD support
Supports super high resolution graphics modes
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640x480
8/16/32 bit colors with 160Hz
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800x600
8/16/32 bit colors with 160Hz
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1024x768
8/16/32 bit colors with 120Hz
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1280x1024
8/16 bit colors with 100Hz
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1600x1200
8/16 bit colors with 85Hz
Motion Video Acceleration
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Support DVD 1.0, VCD 2.0, and Cd-Karaoke
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Motion Compensation for full frame DVD playback
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