Omnicomp Graphics Raises the Bar in 3D Graphics Acceleration; The New !!! 3DEMON twin-GMX8/20.HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 1998--Omnicomp Graphics Corporation reaches unparalleled performance levels with the new 3DEMON(tm) twin-GMX8/20-PCI, a new high-end graphics accelerator designed to meet the demanding requirements for MCAD MCAD Microsoft Certified Application Developer MCAD Mechanical Computer Aided Design MCAD Medium-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase (inherited metabolic disease) MCAD Minneapolis College of Art and Design , Digital Content Creation The development of newsworthy, educational and entertainment material for distribution over the Internet or other electronic media. See DAMS. and visualization applications. The accelerator will support Windows(R) NT on Digital Equipment Corporation (Boston, MA) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DEC) Alpha(R) based workstations and both Windows(R) NT and Windows 95 on Intel(R) Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :INTC INTC Intel (NASDAQ symbol) INTC Intercept INTC Interrupt Controller ) Pentium(R) class systems. 3DEMON(tm) twin-GMX8/20 will ship in May of 1998. 3DEMON(tm) twin-GMX8/20-PCI is designed around the new GMX GMX Global Message Exchange 2000 chipset, which includes the GLINT(R) Gamma geometry and dual GLINT(R) MX rendering processors from 3Dlabs(R)(NASDAQ:TDDDF), and a proprietary Windows accelerator for optimizing overall system performance. Dual GLINT(R) MX devices double the fill rate and are capable of accelerating up to 4.5 million polygons per second while the GLINT(R) Gamma and proprietary Windows accelerator increase system performance through off-loading all OpenGL(R) floating point calculations to the adapter and freeing system resources to maximize application performance. This latest addition to the award-winning 3DEMON(tm) family also supports high resolution display of up to 1900x1080 and 1600x1200 with large screen monitors. The 3DEMON(tm) twin-GMX8/20-PCI provides 112-bits per pixel for support of true color display, front and back buffer, 32-bit Z-buffer, graphics ID, stencil and fast clear planes. The card is loaded with 20MB of texture storage memory. Mark Moore, V.P. Sales & Marketing for Omnicomp, had this to say, "Many of our older 500TX based board customers have been waiting a long time for a significant upgrade. This new powerful PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). based accelerator delivers the type of performance enhancements that they have been asking for." Shipping Now! List Price $2,995 for PCI or AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) A high-speed 32-bit port from Intel for attaching a display adapter to a PC. It provides a direct connection between the card and memory, and only one AGP slot is on the motherboard. . 3DEMON(tm) twin-GMX8/20-PCI will support a wide range of high-performance 3D APIs, including OpenGL(R), HEIDI(tm) and Direct3D(R) and provide an effective solution for professional applications such as Pro/Engineer(R), AutoDesk(R) Mechanical Desktop, EDS/Unigraphics, IDEAS(tm), QUEST(tm), MicroStation(tm), 3D Studio(R) MAX, Softimage(R) 3D, Lightscape(R) and Lightwave(R) 3D. Company Information: Omnicomp Graphics Corporation has been active in professional computer graphics and multimedia markets since its incorporation in 1983. Current offerings for desktop computers include the popular 3DEMON(tm) and Divine3D(tm) graphics accelerator families. Between a wide variety of Divine3D(tm) and 3DEMON(tm) models Omnicomp offers state of the art solutions for the entire price/performance spectrum, from the price sensitive application to the power hungry user. Omnicomp sells its products through Distribution, VAR and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and channels. Omnicomp, 3DEMON and Divine3D are trademarks of Omnicomp Graphics Corporation. All other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: Omnicomp Graphics, Houston Mark Moore, 800/995-OMNI 713/464-2990 mmoore@omnicomp.com or For European Sales/Marketing Brian Lewis, +001 713/464-2990 blewis@omnicomp.com or omninfo@omnicomp.com www.omnicomp.com |
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