Compaq 850 manual Graphics Subsystem, Standard AGP Graphics Card Comparison, Matrox, G450

Technical Reference Guide

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

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

Compaq Deskpro EXS and Workstation 300 Personal Computers 2-13

Featuring the Intel Pentium 4 Processor

First Edition - December 2000