Wildcat Realizm 800 Professional Graphics Card Reviewed

3Dlabs’ Professional Multi-GPU Solution Investigated

by Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 03/28/2005 | 09:02 AM ]

AnandTech has reviewed 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 800 workstation graphics card, which is currently the top offering among 3Dlabs product gamily. The Wildcat Realizm 800 has two visual processing unit each connecting a discreet vertex unit which is called a Vertex/Scalability Unit (VSU) for higher geometry performance.

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“Looking back over the SPECviewperf benchmarks that we’ve shown today, the 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 800 is slower than the FireGL X3-256 under insight and the Quadro FX 4000 under UGS. Improvement over the Realizm 200 is generally between 15 and 30 percent. This seems to suggest to us that 3Dlabs lowered the clock speed of the GPUs a bit in order to compensate for the added heat. There is quite a bit of highly clocked silicon under the hood of the Wildcat Realizm 800, and it would definitely make sense to drop the clocks a little bit to compensate,” concludes AnandTech.

• AnandTech: Wildcat Realizm 800: 3Dlabs Multi-GPU First Look.