HP Professional AP500 Compaq Workstations Graphics Product Positioning - Page 7

Compaq Professional Workstations Graphics Product Positioning 7 Figure 2: The Performance Solutions add Value of the Basic Functionality of the Productivity Solutions Stepping up the Graphics Grades Performance Multi-Display Superior Window/display mgmt Application certification OpenGL & GDI support Productivity Multi-Display Support for 3 or more displays/controller Performance 3D Performance 2D Full hardware OpenGL acceleration--top 3D performance Productivity 3D Larger frame buffer and texture RAM Application certification HW OpenGL acceleration Stereo output support Value-added drivers and utilities Application certification Productivity 2D DualHead output Faster 2D and more RAM Matrox unified drivers DVI functionality Productivity Graphics Solutions Compaq offers a selection of graphics controllers designed to meet the needs of customers with basic graphics requirements that span 2D, multi-display 2D and even 3D graphics. These controllers are aggressively priced, yet offer strong (though not top of the line) performance and functionality levels. As such, these solutions generally offer compelling value and excellent price/performance for a broad range of customers. But it is important to remember that the Productivity class of solution often requires trade-offs in performance, scalability or functionality to achieve lower prices. 2D Graphics For productivity 2D requirements, Compaq offers the ATI Rage Pro Turbo graphics controller on select Compaq Deskpro Workstation AP240 systems. The ATI Rage Pro Turbo provides a basic 2D environment suitable for general office computing, software development, entry ECAD or network management applications where workstation-class compute horsepower and expandability is required. And since the ATI Rage Pro Turbo graphics infrastructure is quite common in many brands of commercial PCs, customers appreciate the benefits of deploying a single graphics technology and driver set across PC and workstation user bases. Additionally, since this graphics technology is so common, and does not require a host of costly hardware features, it is relatively inexpensive, providing an excellent value for customers that do not require additional performance or functionality.