3Dlabs Oxygen GVX210 Announced

3Dlabs Oxygen GVX210 Announced landed today, giving players another thing to circle on the calendar.

3Dlabs announced the new high-end member of the Oxygen family of workstation graphics accelerators – the Oxygen GVX210.

By combining two 3Dlabs GLINT R3 rasterization engines with the new-generation 5,000Mflop GLINT Gamma G2 geometry processor on a single slot AGP card, Oxygen GVX210 delivers balanced high-end performance for both OpenGL and Direct3D applications. With a high-speed 256-bit memory bus, 64MB of on-board memory and 256MB of Virtual Textures, Oxygen GVX210 boosts the interactivity of the very largest models and scenes.

expected to commence shipments in the fourth quarter of 1999 at an MSRP of $1,999.

PC hardware is moving stupid fast right now, and this is one more part of that arms race.