Technical Reference Guide

Compaq Deskpro EXS and Workstation 300 Personal Computers

Featuring the Intel Pentium 4 Processor

First Edition - December 2000

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2.4.8 GRAPHICS SUBSYSTEM

Each of these systems provides an AGP slot that accommodates a Type 1 or Type 2 AGP graphics

adapter (1.5-V only).

Table 2-4 lists the key features of the types of graphics adapters available as standard in these

systems:

Table 2-4. Standard AGP Graphics Card Comparison

Table 2-4.

Standard AGP Graphics Card Comparison

NVIDIA
GeForce2 GTS NVIDIA
TNT2 PRO NVIDIA
Quadro2 MXR ELSA
GLoria II
Matrox
Millennium
G450
Std. Config. In EXS Wkstn. 300 Wkstn. 300 Wkstn. 300 Wkstn. 300
Recommended
for: Hi 2D,
Entry 3D Hi 2D,
Entry 3D Hi 2D,
Entry 3D Hi 2D,
Mid 3D Multi-monitor
Hi 2D
Bus Type AGP 4X AGP 2X/4X AGP 2X/4X AGP 2X/4X AGP 2X/4X
Mem. Amount 32 MB 16 MB 32 MB 64 MB 32 MB
Mem. Type SDRAM SGRAM SDRAM SDRAM DDR SDRAM
DAC Speed 350 MHz 300 MHz 350 MHz 350 MHz
Max. 2D Res. @
# of colors 2048x1536
@ 16.7M 1920x1200
@ 16.7M 1920x1200
@ 16.7M 2048x1536
@ 16.7M 2048x768
@ 65K
Software
Compatibility Quick Draw,
DCI/DirectX,
Direct Draw,
3D OGL,
MPEG 1/2
Quick Draw,
DCI/DirectX,
Direct Draw,
Direct Show,
MPEG 1/2,
Indeo
Quick Draw,
DCI/DirectX,
Direct Draw,
Direct Show,
MPEG 1/2,
Indeo
Quick Draw,
DCI/DirectX,
Direct Draw,
ActiveX,
MPEG 1/2,
OpenGL
Quick Draw,
DCI/DirectX,
Direct Draw,
MPEG 1/2,
OpenGL,
Direct 3D
Special
Features/
Accelerators
3ROP BitBLT,
Line Draw,
Color Expan.
Triangle Eng,
Anti-aliasing,
HDTV proc.,
FS Anti-
aliasing,
32b color &
stencil,
Alpha planes
Transparent
BLT,
Stretch BLT,
Polylines,
Polygons,
Fills,
32b render,
24b Z-buffer, 8b
stencil,
Anisotropic
filtering,
128b TnT
Archit.
Shading
rasterizer,
Digital vibrance
control,
32b render,
24b Z-buffer, 8b
stencil,
Anisotropic
filtering,
Twin View arch.
supporting
2-head Win. &
2-head clone,
DVD support,
24b dbl-
buffered color
planes,
8b stencil,
24b Z-buffer,
stereo support,
3ROP BitBLT,
Dual RAMDAC,
Flat & Gouraud
shading,
Anisotropic
filtering,
Perspective
Texture,
Specular
highlighting,
32b z-buffer,
2-head zoom,
2-head clone,
2-head TV,
DVD max mode
Aux. I/O VESA I/F VESA I/F VESA I/F VESA I/F VESA I/F
Outputs 1 RGB 1 RGB 1 RGB, 1 DVI 1 RGB 2 RGB
NOTE: