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Two new cards represent the third generation of 3Dlabs' Wildcat graphics card family: the Wildcat III 6210 and Wildcat III 6110. These additions push the high end of the 3Dlabs line a bit higher, with the 6210 described by the company as "ultra-high end" and the 6110 as merely "high end." The differences between the two cards are mainly in the area of memory. The 6210 has a 128MB frame buffer and 256MB of texture memory, whereas the 6110 has a 64MB frame buffer and 128MB of texture memory. Both cards can handle dual displays, but the 6210 offers genlock and multiview capability as well, which enables synchronized output from multiple 6210 cards. The 6210 carries more memory than any other card 3Dlabs has issued to date. Among the memory-hungry targets cited for it by the company are HD editing applications and advanced video compositing.
The Wildcat III technology on which the new cards are based differs from its Wildcat II predecessor in several ways. First, the core graphics processor combines geometry and rendering ...