V8 is also a graphics card produced by Silicon Graphics for use in their Octane and Octane2 workstations. It's based on two major chips, called the PB&J (Pixel Blaster and Jammer) and the Buzz ASIC. These two chips combine to implement almost the entire OpenGL 1.2 standard in hardware.
They are attached to an XIO bus interface, and to 128MB of RAM which acts as a combined framebuffer and texture cache. The V8 card provides full acceleration for 2D graphics as well as 3D geometry manipulation and texture mapping. It is four times faster than the previous MXE card for geometry processing, and features about twenty times as much texture cache.
The card provides analog video output in RGB with sync on green using a single 13W3 connector. Up to two V8 cards can be used in a single Octane system.
The V8 is the high-end card of the first generation of VPro-series graphics cards. Its low-end counterpart is the V6. It was replaced by the higher-end V12, which features twice the geometry and texture performance.