3Dlabs Announces PERMEDIA 3
3Dlabs announced the details of its forthcoming PERMEDIA 3 graphics processor, its next-generation device in the award-winning PERMEDIA family, which integrates 2D, 3D,...
July 1998 keeps moving, and today the headline is simple: 3Dlabs Announces PERMEDIA 3. 3Dlabs announced the details of its forthcoming PERMEDIA 3 graphics processor, its next-generation device in the award-winning PERMEDIA family, which integrates 2D, 3D, digital video and VGA processing in a high- performance, single-chip design.
Processing up to 250 million texels-per-second while rendering dual-textured polygons in a single pass, the PERMEDIA 3 design is expected to deliver comprehensive acceleration for Microsoft DirectX 6 multimedia API — providing fast gameplay while boosting 2D, video and 3D Windows application performance. 3Dlabs has completed design of the PERMEDIA 3 and expects to sample and ship the device during the second half of 1998. For PC players watching every demo, patch, driver and announcement right now, this is one more thing to keep on the board.