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High-Tech #V40D112
Advanced 3D Workstation Power for the PC
Diamond's Fire GL 4000 is the advanced, high-powered graphics accelerator
for professionals demanding high-end workstation performance on the PC.
Fire GL
4000 empowers professionals to easily conquer 3D graphics intensive
digital content creation, CAD/CAM, simulation and visualization applications
using OpenGL and HEIDI under the Windows NT platform.
POWERFUL HARDWARE ACCELERATION
Mitsubishi's 3DPro/2mp with REALimage technology integrates advanced
hardware acceleration enabling Fire GL 4000 to execute real-time interactive
and fully textured worlds at workstation-level resolutions up to 1280x1024
in true color.
LIGHTNING FAST 3D RENDERING
The outstanding performance of Diamond's Fire GL 4000 processes up
to 2 Million polygons per second while concurrently achieving extremely
high fill rates up to 60 Million bilinear MIP-mapped pixels per second
and 30 Million trilinear pixels per second.
DYNAMIC 3D PERFORMANCE
Whether you design advanced 3D models in solid or anti-aliased lines,
run sophisticated simulations, render 3D animation or perform complex scientific
computations, Fire GL 4000 is equipped with 15MB of 3D-RAM and 4 or 16
MB of CDRAM to process power-hungry graphics applications with ease.
MAXIMIZED OPENGL ACCELERATION
Based on Diamond's reliable and quality driver technology, Fire GL
4000 provides fully-optimized performance for OpenGL in Windows NT.
SOFTWARE FEATURES
DIAMOND'S AUTOCAD PRODUCTIVITY UTILITIES:
3D Win
Based on OpenGL, Diamond's 3D Win is a 3D viewer tool for real-time
rotation, rendering, customization and manipulation of AutoCAD images.
3D Win features a simplified interface, enhanced performance, support for
AutoCAD Release 13 and 14 and the ability to output to an .AVI file.
Big Focus
Diamond's Big Focus is a 2D display list driver designed for AutoCAD
Release 13. Big Focus provides such features as a simplified interface,
toolbar menu for easy access to commands, close-up views and a birds-eye
window for different user-defined zoom levels.
ACCELERATED DRIVER SUPPORT
| CHIPSET: | Mitsubishi's 3DPro/2mp with REALimage technology Rendering processor based on Evans & Sutherland's REALimage Technology |
| MEMORY: | Mitsubishi's 15 MB 3D-RAM for frame and Z-buffer Mitsubishi's 4 Cached DRAM for fast texture buffering, upgradeable to 16MB |
| 3D RESOLUTIONS: | Up to 1280 x 1024 in true color, double buffered 24-bit Z-buffering
(plus 8-bit overlay) |
| GRAPHICS PERFORMANCE: | -Processes up to 2 million polygons per second in real-time (25 pixel
triangles) with 32-bit Z-buffering, Gouraud shading, filtered MIP-mapped
texture,
transparency, fog and overlay. -60 million bilinear MIP-mapped pixels per second -30 million trilinear texture pixels per second |
| HIGH QUALITY 3DFEATURES: | Texture mapping for real-time rendering
-Double buffering for flicker-free animation -24-bit Z-buffering (plus 8-bit overlay) for true 3D representation |
| CERTIFIED: | PRO/E*, I-DEAS and Softimage |
| MAX DOT RATE: | 220 MHz RAMDAC |
| BUS TYPE: | PCI 2.1 Compliant |
| HORIZONTAL SYNC SIGNALS: | 31.5 - 96.0 kHz |
| VERTICAL REFRESH: | 60 - 120 Hz |
| CONNECTORS: | -DB-15 with DDC2B support
-StereoGraphics output for stereo display |
| MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: | -Windows NT 3.51 or 4.0 (Windows 95 planned)
-Pentium-class processor or compatible CPU -One available PCI 2.1 compliant slot |
Modes and Resolutions
| Resolution | Colors | Line Frequency (kHz) | Refresh Rates (Hz) |
| 640x480 | 16.7M | 31.5 - 62.0 | 60 - 120 |
| 800x600 | 16.7M | 37.9 - 75.0 | 60 - 120 |
| 1024x768 | 16.7M | 48.4 - 96.0 | 60 - 120 |
| 1280x1024 | 16.7M | 64.0 - 92.0 | 60 - 85 |
| HTCE Product ID #V40D112 |