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3Dlabs Inc., Ltd., a leading innovator in professional visual processing, today announced that the new Wildcat Realizm 100 graphics accelerators scored highest on seven of the eight SPECviewperf 8.0.1 benchmarks over competitive AGP 8x-based graphics accelerators. The 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 100 AGP 8x professional graphics accelerator performed so well, in fact, that it also achieved five of the eight highest scores when compared to all submitted competitors' PCI Express solutions. 3Dlabs is a wholly owned subsidiary of Creative Technology Ltd. "3Dlabs has set a new industry standard in workstation graphics performance," said Hock Leow, president of 3Dlabs. "By outperforming our closest AGP 8x competitor by up to 60% on a leading benchmark and outperforming all competitors' PCI Express solutions on five of the eight Viewperf tests, it's clear that the Wildcat Realizm 100 is the best overall professional graphics accelerator on the market. We expect the Wildcat Realizm 200 with 512 MB of memory to perform equally well." The best overall workstation was equipped with an AMD Opteron processor Model 150 and a Wildcat Realizm 100 graphics accelerator and achieved the highest scores on the 3dsmax-03, Catia-01, Maya-01 and SW-01 benchmarks with respective scores of 42.87, 26.35, 51.12 and 26.58. "Together, AMD and 3Dlabs have broken graphics barriers, offering our customers unprecedented performance on AMD Opteron processor-based workstations," said Ben Williams, vice president of enterprise and server/workstation business in AMD's Computation Products Group. "Today's Viewperf 8.0.1 benchmark scores are a tremendous achievement for both companies as we work together to exceed our customers' performance demands." Wildcat Realizm Viewperf 8.0.1 Benchmark Scores 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm-based workstations achieved the following scores on the SPECviewperf 8.0.1 benchmark results published on September 15, 2004: Benchmark Score Performance Gain over Nearest AGP 8x Competitor* 3dsmax-03 42.87 40.7% faster Catia-01 26.35 56.2% faster Ensight-01 20.67 1.7% faster Light-07 20.50 14.9% faster Maya-01 51.12 63.6% faster ProE-03 47.84 2.9% faster SW-01 26.68 20.9% faster UGS-04 26.37 -- *Performance gains are based on overall performance increase over the nearest AGP 8x competitor's score.