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ELSA Synergy II Sets New Price To Performance Standards for 2D and 3D Applications

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ELSIA, a world leader in professional graphics products, announced that Hewlett-Packard Company will offer its next generation HP Kayak PC Workstation product line based on the ELSA Synergy II professional graphics solution. This partnership brings together two industry leaders to deliver top-of-the-line graphics performance, quality, and system robustness at an unprecedented price to performance ratio.

The HP Kayak PC Workstations with ELSA Synergy II graphics solution have garnered international awards, such as the Cadence Editors' Choice Award in 1998. The ELSA Synergy II offers unbeatable 2D and 3D performance, making it an ideal choice for end users in the corporate environment, including those in CAD/CAM, 3D visualization, graphics editing, and DCC. The solution includes the ELSA Software Advantage, providing ELSA application drivers and tools, and supports popular applications such as AutoCAD 2000/R14, Pro/ENGINEER, and LightWave 3D.

Key Takeaways:

  • The ELSA Synergy II is a next-generation graphics solution that offers unbeatable 2D and 3D performance for its price class.
  • The HP Kayak PC Workstations with ELSA Synergy II graphics solution have garnered international awards, such as the Cadence Editors' Choice Award in 1998.
  • The ELSA Synergy II supports popular applications such as AutoCAD 2000/R14, Pro/ENGINEER, and LightWave 3D.
  • The solution includes the ELSA Software Advantage, providing ELSA application drivers and tools.
  • The HP Kayak XA-S PC Workstation, featuring a 600-MHz Pentium III processor, the ELSA Synergy II graphics accelerator, 128 MB SDRAM, and a 9.1 GB SCSI Ultra 2 harddisk drive, is available for an estimated U.S. price of $3,223.
  • The ELSA Synergy II uses nVidia's RIVA TNT2 graphics processor and comes with 32 MB SGRAM.
  • The integrated 300MHz RAMDAC ensures a high ergonomic refresh rate for all resolutions.
  • The graphics card has double buffering, a 24-bit Z-buffer, and an 8-bit stencil.
  • The TwiN Texel technology of the graphics processor enables capacities of 250 million pixels in 32-bit color depth and processing of up to 8 million triangles per second.

Statistics:

  • Estimated U.S. price of the HP Kayak XA-S PC Workstation: $3,223.
  • The ELSA Synergy II supports up to 8 million triangles per second.
  • The graphics card has a 24-bit Z-buffer and an 8-bit stencil.
  • The integrated 300MHz RAMDAC ensures a high ergonomic refresh rate for all resolutions.
  • The graphics solution comes with 32 MB SGRAM.

Sources:

  • ELSA Synergy II press release, Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/.
  • HP Kayak PC Workstations press release, Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/.
  • ELSA website, www.elsa.com.
  • HP website, www.hp.com/desktops/kayak/.

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