Accelerated-X Summit v2.4
Intel/AMD Platform

Colorgraphic Xentera GT Series
Multi-Display Graphics Card Support

Summit Support Available for these cards
Desktop DX Series Multi-head MX Series Wrksta. WX Series HX Series
Bronze Ed. Silver Ed. Gold Ed. Platinum Ed. Bronze Ed. Silver Ed. Gold Ed. Platinum Ed. Platinum Ed. Silver Ed.
No No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes

The Colorgraphic Xentera GT series of multi-display graphics cards are supported by Summit v2.4. Both Linux and Solaris drivers are available. The cards use ATI Mobility RADEON 9000 graphics chips. These are fast chips that use low power (designed for laptop use) and can support two monitors per chip. Summit Series can also support two xscreens per chip.

The GT 2 Xentera cards use one ATI graphics chip and are supported in Summit LX, the desktop series, if only one card is used in a system. The LX Silver and Platinum drivers will support Xi Graphics' DualView feature that provides the ability to split the display image between two monitors.

Multiple Xentera GT cards in a system and Xentera cards that have two or four ATI graphics chips are supported by the Summit MX (Multi-head) and the SingleLogicalScreen HX Series. If there are more than four displays attached to a system, use MX Silver or Platinum (Silver is 2D only; Platinum includes OpenGL 3D). For the HX Series, there are three "Levels" of support in the Silver Edition - Level 1 supports up to four monitors in SLS; Level 2 supports up to 8 monitors in SLS, and Level 3 supports up to 16 monitors in SLS. With HX, not all monitors have to be covered by the same xscreen, so you can use multiple xscreens, some of which are "stretched" across multiple graphics chips, if you choose.

In MX Series, each ATI graphics chip on a Xentera card can display an image across two displays in a configuration we call "Single Logical Image" mode. A GT 4 card can drive two sets of such display pairs; the GT 8 can drive four such pairs. However, each pair have separate logical images It is not presently possible to have one Single Logical Screen ("SLS") that covers the displays of different pairs. That feature requires the use of the HX Series.


Summit Driver Selection - Xentera Cards
Xentera GT 2 - Use a Summit DX (desktop) driver if you have only one card per system. Bronze and Gold can be used if only one display is on the sytem. For two displays, use Silver or Platinum. 2D only is Bronze or Silver, add OpenGL 3D with Gold or Platinum.

Xentera GT 4 or GT8 - Use a Summit MX (Multi-head) driver Silver for 2D image rendering, and Platinum if OpenGL is also needed, AND you are using two displays per graphics chip. If you are using only one display per graphics chip - in order to get a separate 'X screen' per display, for example, Bronze and Gold can be used up to a total of four displays per system. More than four displays, go to Silver and Platinum, respectively. For stretching 2D images across two or more graphics chips use the HX Series.


Some Specificaions and Benchmarks
(Data applies per ATI graphics chip)
Graphics Chip(s), Memory ATI RADEON 9000, 64MB (per head)
DualView? Yes, Dual, DualView
Stereo? Yes
Overlay Plane? No
Video Window? Yes
Video Capture? No
Hdwe TCL (geom)? Yes
Dig Flat Panel? Yes
AGP, PCI? Yes
DVI? Yes
Comments:  The data imply the card has the feature (DVI output, for example) and the correct Edition of Summit driver is chosen. Colorgraphic and Xi Graphics have a good working relationship designed to properly support the users of the Colorgraphic hardware.
Date of test data: Feb '04, using PCI
BENCHMARK TESTS RESULTS
P4, 1.8 GHz Summit v2.2
Linux
Windows 2000
Viewperf 7
3dsmax-01 2.37 .
DRV-08 6.74 .
DX-07 13.46 .
Light-05 3.52 .
ProE-01 2.19 .
UGs-01 1.06 .
Viewperf 6
AWadvs-04 30.92 .
DRV-07 6.82 .
DX-06 13.66 .
Light-04 3.54 .
MedMCAD-01 12.42 .
ProCDRS-03 32.93 .
GLperf=MegaPixels
glDrawPixels 22.3 .
Quake III Normal (24bpp)
Frames/sec 105 .
X11perf - Xmarks
24bpp Color 108 -

Anti-aliasing of text - chars/sec

AA text 286 .