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Older/Historical Cards - Traditional High-end PC Graphics Card Vendors

- mid-range to ultra high-end hardware
- they used to have a card in the $100-$200 range, the RealImage 3000 / E&S Tornado
- Harmony - standalone system, website doesn't say how much texture RAM
- Rhythm II - graphics card, 16Mb texture, with PowerPC 603r for geometry acceleration
- ESIG 5500 - "expandable to 64Mb on-line texture memory"
- Ensemble - graphics card, up to 128Mb texture ("32 effective")
hp workstations
- fx¹⁰pro rev.b
  - usable texture RAM up to 110 MB depending on configuration
- used the Oxygen brand name for their mid-range cards, and Wildcat for the high end
- most of their drivers include "PowerThreads" technology for multi-threaded OpenGL, which reported makes a difference on multi-CPU machines
- they bought the Intense3D Wildcat card series, once a part of Intergraph
- top-of-the-line card was the Wildcat VP - 128/256 MB texture RAM
- their Visual Workstations with Cobalt graphics were very impressive, but apparently the product was cancelled
- for a while, SGI sold systems built by VA Linux with NVidia cards in them

Historical Card Capabilities

Chipset	Card	Max texture RAM (MB)	GL MAX TEXTURE SIZE	notes
3Dlabs Wildcat	Wildcat 4110 / 4210	64 / 128	?
3Dlabs RPM	Oxygen RPM 3D	~50 (64 on card)	?
3Dlabs Gamma / Glint R3	Oxygen GVX1	32 (card total)	2048
3Dlabs Permedia 3 / Glint R3	Oxygen VX1	32 (card total)	?
HP	Kayak Visualize fx10	~110 (of 128)	?
NVidia Quadro2 / GeForce2	many	~50 (64 on card)	2048	Works very well, see speed tests vs. stock GeForce and high-end cards
NVidia GeForce	3D Prophet, 3D Blaster Annihilator, etc.	32 (card total)	1024/2048 depending on driver
SGI Cobalt	(built into their Visual Workstation series)	> 512 (!)	4096 (!)	wow. tested 4k*4k and it really works. unfortunately discontinued.
S3 Savage4 / Savage2000	Viper II, Stealth III S540	up to 32 (card total)	2048 claimed	"Support for up to 2K x 2K Textures."
3dfx Voodoo 2/3	various	8 per texture engine	256	never had a full OpenGL ICD
3dfx VSA-100	Voodoo 4/5	32 per texture engine	2048 claimed	claims "Up to 64MB graphics memory per chip", but announced cards only have 32 MB/chip. website still doesn't claim OpenGL ICD
ATI Rage 128 Pro (dual)	Rage Fury MAXX	64 (32/32) (card total)	2048 claimed	dual chips, 32MB exclusive to each chip, so texture limits are probably no better than 32MB cards - did not support NT at all
ATI Rage 128 Pro	Rage Fury/Magnum	32 (card total)	2048 claimed	No AGP texturing on NT4.0
HP	Kayak Visualize fx6 - XW	16/16	?	was once the fastest NT-based card, 32 MB split between 2 fill engines
E&S RealImage 3000	E&S Tornado	32	2048	latest driver required for 2K textures
E&S RealImage 2100	OEM	16	1024	same as RI 1000, rejects 2k*2k
E&S RealImage 2100	AccelGalaxy	32	1024	based on RI 2100, twice the texture RAM
E&S RealImage 1200	Lightning 1200™	16	?