Since its initial announcement, the Permedia 3 chipset has spawned much discussion, on everything from bump mapping to multiple texture stages to virtual texturing. The Permedia 3 also offers many of the standard 2D and 3D features gamers know and love, and the Oxygen card is capable of handling some pretty impressive resolutions as well.

Check out the black and white on the Oxygen VX1:

• Maximum 2D resolution: 2048x1536x32bpp@60Hz
• Virtual Texture memory management unit
• Texture Unit with single pass, multi-texture capability
• Integrated 300MHz RAMDAC
• OpenGL 1.1 ICD
• Multiprocessor system optimized
• 2048x2048x32 maximum individual texture size
• Single pass bump-mapping, per-pixel lighting
• Gouraud shading
• Perspectively correct bilinear and trilinear filtering
• Perspectively correct per pixel MIP-mapping
• Dual bilinear mip-mapped textures in a single pass
• Anti-aliased lines and polygons
• Full-scene anti-aliasing
• Overlay and stencil buffers
• 32 bit Z-buffering
• GID Clipping
• Fill rate - 220Mtexels/sec dual bilinear mip-map textures
• Fill rate - 110Mpixels/sec trilinear mip-map texture
• AGP 2X and AGP 4X compatible
• Hardware MPEG-2 Motion Compensation
• True color resolutions up to 1920x1200 or 2048x1536 double-buffered and 32-bit Z
• 32MB of unified SDRAM framebuffer, Z-buffer and texture memory
• Up to 256MB of host memory used as a Virtual Texture store