VIA Apollo KX133 Athlon Chipset - Part 2

Data Explorer (DX-05) Viewset

Taken from: http://www.spec.org/gpc/opc.static/dx.htm

The IBM Visualization Data Explorer (DX) is a general-purpose software package for scientific data visualization and analysis. It employs a data-flow driven client-server execution model and is currently available on Unix workstations from Silicon Graphics, IBM, Sun, Hewlett-Packard and Digital Equipment. The OpenGL port of Data Explorer was completed with the recent release of DX 2.1.

The tests visualize a set of particle traces through a vector flow field. The width of each tube represents the magnitude of the velocity vector at that location. Data such as this might result from simulations of fluid flow through a constriction. The object represented contains about 1,000 triangle meshes containing approximately 100 verticies each. This is a medium-sized data set for DX.

The performance throne is restored to the Athlon 800/KX133 setup in the Data Explorer (DX-05) Viewset, and the KX133 vs AMD 750 performance advantage is pushed up to an 80% performance increase provided by the KX133. This type of an improvement is incredible, but part of the performance improvement is because of the 133MHz memory bus frequency, regardless, for professional level OpenGL users, the Athlon/KX133 is an available one and a powerful one.