IT-Review

Wildcat Realizm 500 PCI-e Based Graphics Card from 3Dlabs

The new 3DLabs Wildcat Realizm 500 is a graphics accelerator created for price-conscious CAD and DCC professionals.

The Wildcat Realizm 500, which costs just a dollar less than $900 USD, provides twice the onboard memory (256 MB) of any competing mid-range graphics accelerator. Also touting superior graphics performance, the Wildcat Realizm 500 beats competing mid-range products on five SPEC Viewperf 8.1.0 viewsets, including the 3ds max-03 viewset, with a score of over 48 frames per second, which is 29 percent higher than the closest competing PCI Express-based product.

The PCI Express-based Wildcat Realizm 500 integrates a Visual Processing Unit (VPU) and 256 MB of high-speed GDDR3 memory on a 256-bit wide bus. Wildcat Realizm 500 is equipped with two, single-link DVI-I connectors, a stereo connector and two DVI to VGA display adaptors. The entire line of Wildcat Realizm professional graphics accelerators supports the OpenGL 2.0 API and Microsoft Windows XP 32- and 64-bit operating systems.

The card is expected to ship by the end of August.

Some specs:

Full programmability and floating-point capabilities through entire graphics processing pipeline
Seamless 32- to 16-bit and 16- to 32-bit conversion with zero overhead
PCI Express architecture
Optimized dual-display acceleration
SuperScene multisampling full-scene antialiasing support
Texture sizes up to 4K x 4K
Dedicated isochronous channel
Orthogonal, compiler friendly SIMD array throughout pipeline allowing compilers to deliver optimal performance
Independent dual 400 MHz 10-bit DACs
OpenGL 2.0
OpenGL Shading Language
Microsoft DirectX 9.0 with High Level Shader Language (HLSL, VS 2.0, PS 2.0)
x16 PCI Express slot, half-length and full-height card. single slot.
Consumes 71 Watts of system power
256MB GDDR3 uniﬁed memory with 256-bit-wide interface bus
64 KB of ﬂashable EEPROM memory for VGA bios and product conﬁguration storage