Hewlett-Packard's dual-processor-capable HP Kayak XW PC Workstation marks the debut of the company's HP VISUALIZE fx6 graphics for Microsoft Windows NT. This graphics technology has been available for UNIX systems from HP since September 1997. The NT PC workstation version provides DMA (direct memory access) support, full AGP 2X support, and optional dual texture engines with 32-Mbytes SDRAM texture memory. Benchmarks are impressive. HP reports that the Kayak XW achieves 181 Viewperf CDRS-03 and 52.05 Viewperf A Wadvs-01, and out performed other Windows NT 3D graphics accelerators in eight additional benchmarks, including the Indy-3D MCAD and animation viewsets. A unit featuring a 400-MHz Pentium II Xeon processor, Intel's 440GX AGP chip set, HP VISUALIZE fx6 graphics, 128 Mbytes SDRAM, and a 4.5-Gbyte hard-disk drive will be available in October for $12,000. Hewlett-Packard: Product Code 4413
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