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Sun XVR-500 Graphics Accelerator
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Overview
Product Family Placement
Enabling Technology and Features

Overview

The Sun XVR-500 graphics accelerator is an affordable graphics card for demanding 3-D applications that require fast geometry and texture-mapping performance. It offers even better performance, quality, and value than its predecessor, the Sun Expert3D-Lite graphics accelerator.

The cost-effective Sun XVR-500 graphics accelerator provides sophisticated 3-D graphics and texture-mapping capabilities and flexible functionality that allow you to more accurately visualize, analyze, and interpret data. As a result, you can work more efficiently and productively.

Running on the mature and tested SPARC® processor and Solaris platform of Sun Blade 1000 and Sun Blade 2000 workstations, and Sun Fire V880 servers, the Sun XVR-500 graphics accelerator supports the industry-standard Sun OpenGL® for Solaris API and the Java 3D API. All existing applications using these APIs will run on the Sun XVR-500 graphics accelerator.

The Sun XVR-500 graphics accelerator is the ideal choice for professionals in the mechanical design and analysis (MCAD/MCAE), electronic design automation (EDA), geotechnical engineering and geographic information systems (GIS), education, general science, visualization, and health care industries who want an affordable, high-performance, high-resolution, hardware-accelerated graphics accelerator.

Product Family Placement

The Sun XVR-500 graphics accelerator continues the success of the Sun Expert3D-Lite graphics accelerator and is the latest entry into Sun's family of graphics solutions. The following table compares some of the features of the Sun XVR-500, Sun Creator3D, Sun Elite3D, Sun Expert3D, and Sun Expert3D-Lite graphics accelerators.

	Sun XVR-500	Sun Creator3D	Sun Elite3D	Sun Expert3D	Sun Expert3D-Lite
Bus	PCI 64 bit, 66 MHz 64 bit, 33 MHz 32 bit, 66 MHz 32 bit, 33 MHz	UPA	UPA	PCI 64 bit, 66 MHz	PCI 64 bit, 66 MHz
Maximum 2-D resolution	1920 x 1080	1920 x 1200	1280 x 1024	1920 x 1200	1920 x 1080
Maximum 3-D resolution	1920 x 1080	1280 x 1024	1280 x 1024	1920 x 1200	1920 x 1080
Stereo resolution	1152 x 900 @ 120Hz 1280 x 800 @ 112 Hz	960 x 680 @ 112 Hz	960 x 680 @ 112 Hz	1280 x 1024 @ 112 Hz	1152 x 900 @ 120 Hz 1280 x 800 @ 112 Hz
Memory type	SDRAM	3DRAM	3DRAM	SDRAM	SDRAM
Frame buffer memory	32 MB	15 MB	15 MB	64 MB	32 MB
On-board texture memory	16 MB	System memory	16 x 16 texel cache	64 MB	16 MB
Geometry performance (triangles/ sec.)	8.2 M	1.4 M	3.0 M 5.9 M	6.0 M	4.1 M
Texture fill rate (pixels/sec.)	166 M	host bound	25-30 M	118 M without Z-buffering	88 M
APIs supported	OpenGL® Java 3D	OpenGL Java 3D XIL XGL Phigs	OpenGL Java 3D XIL XGL Phigs	OpenGL Java 3D	OpenGL Java 3D

Enabling Technology and Features

Professional-level graphics technology: For professionals working with advanced graphical applications, the Sun XVR-500 graphics accelerator features state-of-the-art graphics technology such as:

Dedicated frame buffer and texture memory
32-bit Z-buffer
10-bit RAMDAC output
3-D volumetric rendering
64-bit hardware accumulation buffer support
Up to 24 hardware-accelerated lighting calculations
Hardware-based polygon ordering
Per-pixel fog support

Functionality and flexibility: The Sun XVR-500 graphics accelerator supports a wide range of displays and resolutions. Using four Sun XVR-500 graphics accelerator cards installed on the Sun Blade 1000 workstation, Sun Blade 2000 workstation, or Sun Fire V880 server, you can have up to four monitors with synchronized, stereoscopic displays.

The 33-MHz and 66-MHz PCI slot supports installation into any PCI slot in Sun Blade 1000 and Sun Blade 2000 workstations and the Sun Fire V880 server.