3Dlabs Wildcat VP

[xBee]

http://www.3dlabs.com/~~~/wildcatvp/

100% Programmable Visual Processing
Leading OpenGL and Direct3D performance
Over 200Gflop and 1.2 TeraOp VPU
Professional-grade reliability and quality
Family of price/performance options

[slipknot]

Here goes the first benches of the lower end model with 64mb

http://www.amazoninternational.com/html/benchmarks/multiple/wildcatVP/wildcatVP.asp

[Pace]

£385 for 64MB, £480 for 128MB. Compare to £280 for 128MB Parhelia Low-end cards certainly are attractive!

[Dogbert]

There is one thing that stands for the wildcat series though, they mange their scores with MUCH lower CPU usage than the competition.

They deserve at least some respect for that since as you know, benchmarking Quake 3 and actually playing Quake 3 will give different results because of all the I/O which doesn't exist in a benchmark while there is plenty in an actual game.

[Kruzin]

Matrox does not make this card, so this is not Matrox Hardware.
Moved to General Hardware/Software forum.

[magog]

Ok, here is what I found in the German Heise.de Newsticker (http://www.heise.de/newsticker):
"Der Hamburger Distributer dcp nennt für die Wildcat VP760 und VP870 Preise von 730 und 980 Euro, wobei die VP760 ab Juli und die VP870 im August verfügbar sei. Die Wildcat VP970 sollte eigentlich 1500 Euro kosten -- nach neuesten Informationen wird die VP970 aber wohl gar nicht in den Handel kommen, da sie sowohl preislich als auch mit ihrer Leistung zu dicht an der Wildcat III 6110 liegt."

Ok, now the translation [there may be some glitches - Hi Liz! ]:
"The Hamburger Distributor dcp stated that the Wildcat VP760 and VP870 will cost from 730 EUR (US $ 686) up to 980 EUR (US $ 921), whereby the VP760 will be available in July and th VP870 in August.
The Wildcat VP970 was supposed cost 1500 EUR (US $ 1410) --- but it seems the VP970 would not make it to market, because it's equal to the Wildcat III 6110 in price and performance ."


The drivers are only for Win2000 and XP!
Supported are currently only DirectX 8.1 (Vertex Shader 1.1 und Pixel Shader 1.2) and OpenGL 1.2!
Win98 drivers will follow later!

DirectX 9 and OpenGL 2.0 drivers available upon request!

Regarding the drivers Matrox and 3DLabs seems to be on an equal level (no Win9x support, no OpenGL driver >1.2).

[GT98]

Originally posted by magog

Regarding the drivers Matrox and 3DLabs seems to be on an equal level (no Win9x support, no OpenGL driver >1.2).

hmmmm

[Pace]

I hope Parhelia will do well in the high-end GL apps, but it won't affect me

[Mephisto]

This is interesting from the Wildcat VP article at AmazonInternational:

"Line Antialiasing (up to 16 samples)"

You can find it on the "3D features".

Just me, or it sounds very similar to Parhelia's FAAx16??

[xortam]

Originally posted by Kruzin
Matrox does not make this card, so this is not Matrox Hardware ...

You sure about that.