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'''UltimateVision''' was the final high-end graphics architecture that was SGI branded, with ATi (now AMD) providing the chipsets for the [[Onyx4]] and [[Prism]] workstations.

== Information ==
Introduced in 2006, UltimateVision was offered as the graphics option for SGI’s Prism and Onyx4 visualization systems,. The UltimateVision subsystem was designed to scale from a single high-performance graphics pipe to multi-pipe configurations for visualization walls, immersive VR caves, and advanced scientific rendering workloads.

UltimateVision succeeded the long-running InfiniteReality line that had powered SGI’s [[Onyx]] workstations and servers. While InfiniteReality was based on custom ASICs, UltimateVision relied more heavily on off-the-shelf graphics components integrated into SGI’s system architecture. This shift reflected SGI’s financial decline and the growing dominance of commodity GPUs from vendors such as NVIDIA and ATI.

== Implications for IRIX ==
The UltimateVision for the Onyx4 is an ATi FireGL X1 graphics card on a customized AGP backplane. It required using Xfree86 instead of XSGI, which means IRISGL-based demos no longer will work.

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