The Quadro FX3000 is based on the same NV35 core that powers the latest GeForce FX 5900 cards, but with a few new additions to cater to the professional market. Compared to the older Quadro FX2000, which was based on the NV30, or GeForce FX5800, the FX3000 has double the memory, at 256MB, as well as a 256-bit memory interface, giving double the theoretical graphics bandwidth, hitting just over 27GB/s. It also supports other features from the NV35, including a 128-bit floating-point precision graphics pipeline, 128-bit colour, 12-bit sub-pixel accuracy, 16x full-scene anti-aliasing, 3D volumetric textures, and of course support for all the latest OpenGL, DirectX and NVIDIA’s own Cg graphics language versions.

The 3Dlabs Oxygen GVX210 occupies the high-end of the 3Dlabs professional OpenGL graphics card range, and as such sports a very impressive specification. Not only does it feature two of the GLINT R3 rasterisers that are found on the GVX1, effectively doubling the fill rate of the card, but it also features an improved geometry engine, the GLINT Gamma R2.