Diamond FireGL1
| Technical details | ||
| Name: | FireGL1 | |
| Company: | Diamond Multimedia | |
| Chipset: | IBM 256-bit Graphics Rasterizer | |
| Memory: | 32 MB SGRAM 100 MHz | |
| DAC: | integrated 250 MHz | |
| Bus: | AGP 2x | |
| Connectors: | VGA Out | |
| FCC-ID: | ? | |
| Manufactured: | 2000 |
The card runs exclusivly in 32 bit modes only. The NT4 driver requires installed minimum SP4.
Diamond Fire GL1 is based upon the IBM 256-bit Graphics Rasterizer, integrating the functionality of a VGA controller, a 2D/3D Raster Engine with Geometry Pipeline Setup processor, and a 250 MHz RAMDAC in a single package. Diamond Fire GL1 delivers a balance of 2D power and superior 3D acceleration providing power for professional 2D and 3D NT graphics applications:
¨ Mechanical Engineering Analysis (MEA)
¨ Mechanical Computer Aided Design (MCAD)
¨ Electrical Design Automation (EDA)
¨ Digital Content Creation (DCC)
¨ Animation
¨ Visualization
HARDWARE FEATURES
¨ IBM 256-bit Graphics Rasterizer
¨ 32 MB SGRAM used for unified framebuffer, Z-, Alpha-, Overlay-, Window ID and Clip/Stencil buffers, and texture storage
¨ Single short form factor AGP and PCI versions
- AGP ATX/NLX bus, AGP2x version 2.0 compliant, with sideband addressing
- PCI bus 32-bit 33/66 MHz version 2.1 compliant
¨ 100 MHz clock on raster engine and frame buffer
¨ 64 KByte BIOS FlashROM, reprogrammable by software
¨ 32-bit RGBa True color 2D and 3D acceleration
¨ Accelerated, double-buffered 32-bit TrueColor up to 1920 x 1200, at 75 Hz refresh rates
¨ 24-bit Z- buffer, 4-bit double-buffer, 8-bit single-buffer overlay
¨ Video engine supports YUV conversion, point and bilinear scaling
¨ Standard blue 15-pin D-Type video output connector
SOFTWARE FEATURES
¨ OpenGL 1.2 ICD
¨ Supports Windows NT 4.0
¨ Multiprocessor system support
¨ Software driver supports up to 4 displays
¨ DDC2B support on all operating systems
¨ Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions (70 New Instructions) in the new Intel Processors
¨ Customized application settings for individual ISV applications
¨ Multithreaded OpenGL pipeline and ThreadSafe OpenGL 1.2 ICD support for dual processors.
¨ Multihead display driver supports up to 4 screens
¨ DDC2B monitor support on all operating system platforms
PROFESSIONAL 3D RENDERING
¨ Full OpenGL 1.2 feature set
¨ Gouraud shading
¨ Bilinear and trilinear MIP-mapping
¨ Alpha blending
¨ Fogging and depth cueing
¨ Anti-aliased lines and sorted polygons
¨ Scissoring and stippling
¨ Overlay and stencil buffers
¨ Z-buffering
Diamond FireGL1 Users Guide
Diamond FireGL1 Drivers for NT4, Win2K
Video with benchmarks Quake2, Unreal Tournament, Quake3
on Pentium III 800 MHz, i440BX, 256 MB, Windows NT4, 640x480 at 32 bit color, game settings as recommended at 3dcenter.de.
Quake2 demo1.dm2: 31.5 fps
UTbench: 10.42 fps
Quake3: 13.9 fps
