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For nearly a year, 3Dlabs' Wildcat 4210 graphics accelerator was the acknowledged high-end 3D graphics performance king. In recent months, however, the formerly invincible 4210 has been dethroned in the SPECviewperf 6.1.2 benchmarks by the likes of S3's FireGL 2 and Nvidia's Quadro Pro 2 cards. Since the 4210 has never come cheap, the card and its manufacturer were suddenly in an awkward position.
3Dlabs is now issuing an heir, however, in the Wildcat 5110, the company's latest card and the first to be based on its Wildcat II technology introduced at Siggraph last year. According to 3Dlabs, the 5110, which is actually a replacement for the second-tier 4110 rather than the 4210, bests other cards in most SPECviewperf 6.1.2 tests, and soundly trounces them when all test machines use Pentium 4 processers, which offer the necessary bandwidth for the 5110 to show its stuff.
Behind the speed is a next-generation chipset that uses 0.18 micron technology, a new geometry engine with 16 million transistors operating at 225MHz, a new rasterization ...