NitroX infinity wrote on 29.01.09 at 14:23:08:Does that card have 3D capability? Or is it just a 2D card?
It's Oak's first and last 3D card, never released, all Oaks assets were bought by ATI. Quick quote from Wiki (picture is my card)
I only know of two other people with this board, I'm sure there are more, but it's unknown how many reference boards had been given out.
Quote:Warp 5 - OTI 64317
During the late 1990s, Oak was developing their first and only 2D/3D graphics accelerator chip. Warp 5 was to be a tile-based deferred renderer (TBDR), similar to PowerVR's chipsets. In the same vein as the S3 ViRGE chip, the Warp 5 was pin-compatible with a 2D-only predecessor. The chip was never released because ATI acquired the technology. It was Oak's final mainstream graphics chip development effort.
This graphics processor was based on a region concept and had many similarities to Microsoft's Talisman architecture. The chip processed each region at a time and did on chip z-sorting and anti-aliasing. As a result, the chip did 24-bit floating point Z, sub-pixel anti-aliasing, order independent translucency, non-linear fogging and atmospheric effects and MIP-Mapping. Typically, such region based architectures are gated by the number of polygons that can be processed per region, but Oak claimed that there were no such limitations in the WARP 5.
The specifications included:
* 50m pixels/sec (all features turned on)
* EDO and SGRAM Memory Supported - 8MB
* On-chip Texture Cache
* 2D GUI acceleration
* Video Scaling in Y
* VBI support Including Intercast
* 220MHz RAMDAC
* Resolutions to 1600 X 1200
* Direct3D and BRender APIs supported
* OS support Windows 95 and Windows NT
* Packaging - 256 pin BGA
* Pin Compatibility with OAK OTI-74217 EON 2D GUI accelerator
And here :
http://members.tripod.com/~FireEYE/warp5.html
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