QuickSpecs
Unlimited vertex instruction
3D volumetric textures support
Single-system powerwall
12 pixels per clock rendering engine
Hardware accelerated antialiased points & lines
Hardware OpenGL® overlay planes
Hardware accelerated two-sided lighting
Hardware accelerated clipping planes
3rd-generation occlusion culling
OpenGL quad-buffered stereo
Hardware-Accelerated Line Strippling
16 textures per pixel in fragment programs
Window ID clipping functionality
Shading Architecture
Shading ArchitectureShading Architecture
Shading Architecture
Fully programmable GPU (OpenGL2.0/DirectX 9.0c class)
Long fragment programs (unlimited instructions)
Long vertex programs (unlimited instructions)
Looping and subroutines (up to 256 loops per vertex program)
Dynamic flow control
Conditional execution
High Level Shader
High Level ShaderHigh Level Shader
High Level Shader
Languages
LanguagesLanguages
Languages
Optimized compiler for Cg and Microsoft® HLSL
OpenGL 2.0 and DirectX 9.0c support
Open source compiler
High-Resolution
High-ResolutionHigh-Resolution
High-Resolution
Antialiasing
AntialiasingAntialiasing
Antialiasing
12-bit subpixel sampling precision enhances AA quality
Rotated Grid Full Scene Antialiasing (RG FSAA)
16x FSAA dramatically reduces visual aliasing artifacts or "jaggies" at
resolution up to 1920x1200
Display Resolution
Display ResolutionDisplay Resolution
Display Resolution
Support
SupportSupport
Support
2 Dual-Link DVI-I output-drives digital displays at resolutions up to 3840 x
2400 @ 24Hz
Internal 400 MHz DACs - Two analog displays up to 2048x1536 @ 75 Hz
each
nView Architecture
nView ArchitecturenView Architecture
nView Architecture
Advanced multi-display desktop & application management seamlessly
integrated into Microsoft® Windows®.
Supported Graphics APIs
Supported Graphics APIsSupported Graphics APIs
Supported Graphics APIs
OpenGL 2.0
DirectX 9.0c
3D Primitive Perf
3D Primitive Perf3D Primitive Perf
3D Primitive Perf
Geometry (Triangles per Second) 225 Million
Fill Rate (Texels per Second) 15.6 Billion
Available Graphics
Available GraphicsAvailable Graphics
Available Graphics
drivers
driversdrivers
drivers
Microsoft Windows XP Professional,
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition,
Linux® - Full Open GL implementation, complete with NVIDIA and ARB
extensions.
HP qualified drivers may be preloaded or available from the HP support web
site:
http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/eng/software_drivers.html
QuickSpecs
HP xw8400 Workstation
HP xw8400 WorkstationHP xw8400 Workstation
HP xw8400 Workstation
Technical Specifications - Graphics
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