Hello all

I thought I might start something totally different, a Quantum3D topic, heh okay don't have any Q3D cards yet, might one day, but that ain't the case this time ;)

Does Quantum3D still use GPUs from other Vendors like they used 3dfx GPU's in thier Raven/Ventana, AALchemy lines?

What do they use now? nVidia, ATi, Matrox, SGI chips? Or do they make thier own type of GPU's?

http://www.quantum3d.com/

ah okay, well they use the nVidia NV40 aka GeForce 6800/QuadroFX 4000 GPU for thier upgraded AALchemy systems:

"The upgrade brings the power of NVIDIA® NV40 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) technology to AAlchemy SX, TX and QX PC-IGs via technology insertion and increases the performance of the AAlchemy PC-IG systems by up to 500% in many important areas including pixel fill rate, triangle rate and texture memory-all while preserving the full scene anti-aliasing image quality that is the hallmark of AAlchemy systems."

got that info from here:
http://www.quantum3d.com/press/2004/07-14-04_AAlchemyUpgrade.htm

so it's nVidia all the way now, the 3dfx based AALchemy 8264 & 8464 system's page is still listed only they aren't available anymore :(
http://www.quantum3d.com/products/AAlchemy/aalchemy.html

still good to see that Quantum3D still has the info page of thier 3dfx based rigs :)


The Ventana 8130 AGP consists of a merchant NVIDIA NV40 AGP graphics board and Quantum3D's patented nVSync™ module

sounds pretty neat, I only wonder what it looks like hehe .


on this urls some nice 3dfx Voodoo4 4500 & Voodoo5 5500 + 6000 info :D
http://www.quantum3d.com/press/htmlarchive/voodoo5.htm

" The Voodoo5 family includes the 4500, 5500 and 6000 models. They provide the complete benefits of VSA-100's scalability, full-scene anti-aliasing, 32-bit per pixel rendering, high-resolution support, T-Buffer digital cinematic effects, and high-quality texture compression (DXTC and FXT1) capabilities. The Voodoo5 5500 and 6000 boards include multiple 3dfx VSA-100 which are used to enhance fill rate performance via Scan Line Interleaving (SLI) or to dramatically improve image quality via full-scene, sub-pixel anti-aliasing and T-buffer digital cinematic effects for enhanced visual realism without performance penalties. The Voodoo5 4500 includes a single VSA-100 chip with 32MB of SDRAM. The Voodoo5 5500 and 6000 offers two or four VSA-100 chips per board, respectively with combined frame buffer sizes of 32MB to 128MB (SDRAM), respectively. Complete information on the Voodoo5 product family is available at www.3dfx.com."