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The Wildcat VP was designed as a workstation card first, but may be of interest to gamers as well, as it supports both OpenGL 2. The Wildcat VP cards come in four models and are aimed directly at Nvidia's high-end boards, both in terms of price and performance. The P10 VPU is fully programmable and supports such advanced features as automatic parallelization of applications to put processing power where it's needed most. For those using 3ds max, the software includes custom drivers for 3ds max 4. The Wildcat VP is a terrific choice for anyone wanting a workstation class graphics card at a reasonable price. By clicking the "Subcribe" button, you agree to sign up for the CGW Magazine e-newsletter, as well as to receive third-party promotions from our partners.

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The Wildcat VP cards come in four models and are aimed directly at Nvidia's high-end boards, wildxat in terms of price and performance. Still, I did notice on the Maya Web site that the card is specifically listed as not supported. These small processors can also be split up and used for different tasks, and they can off-load tasks normally completed by the CPU.

I tested the card on a dual 1. This is undoubtedly where professional 3D graphics is headed, as it allows rendering times to be cut significantly. Performance is always the big issue with graphics cards, and the Wildcat VP is no slouch.

Wildcat VP870

To complement its higher-end cards and build upon the Wildcat name, the company has introduced a line of mid-range cards called Wildcat VP. The multiprocessor architecture 3xlabs unique among graphics cards and offers many possibilities for expansion and customization. These boards are aimed directly at Nvidia's high-end models, both in price and performance, and they are certainly heating up this segment of the workstation card market.

This compares favorably to Nvidia's Quadro4 cards, and places the VP near the front of the pack in terms of performance. I received the card when it was released last fall, but encountered problems with the first set of drivers. Some years ago, 3Dlabs took over Intergraph's Wildcat business. Overall, this card is a solid performer.

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The Wildcat VP comes in four models. Qildcat real-world tests using Maya, I found the card to be as fast or faster than the Quadro4 XGL, which costs several hundred dollars more.

The Wildcat VP has over of these processors on a single chip, which allows the card to parallel-process image information, theoretically making it much smoother and more responsive than a typical graphics card.

There is also a connector for 3D shutter glasses. For those using 3ds max, the software includes custom drivers for 3ds max 4. The Wildcat VP is a terrific choice for anyone wanting a workstation class graphics card at a reasonable price.

Over the course of a week, I tested the software against 3ds max and a number of other applications, including After Effects, Photoshop, and Maya. The Wildcat VP was designed as a workstation card first, but may be of interest to gamers as well, as it supports both OpenGL 2.

Viewperf vvp870 were good: George Maestria contributing editor, is president of Rubberbug, a Los Angeles-based animation studio specializing in character animation. These processors can handle anything from antialiasing pixels to calculating high-order surfaces to performing such esoteric tasks as wavelet compression and photoreal rendering.

The P10 VPU is fully programmable and supports such advanced features as automatic parallelization of applications to put processing power where it's needed most.

I had no problems, but Maya users should certainly double-check wlldcat purchasing this card.

The card turned in a 3ds max score of The card is sparsely populated with chips and has the requisite heatsink to cool the visual processing unit VPU.

The card is also the first to support virtual memory, delivering up to 16gb of addressable space. The VP has four pixel pipelines and can process eight textures per pass. The new set seems to have relieved my earlier concerns, and it now comes with 3Dlabs' Acuity window manager. As for 3dlabss, 3Dlabs supports a huge list of 3D software. Although the Quadro4 and FireGL feature pixel shaders, these are programmable only up to a point.

Publications CGW Volume: The card ran great.