TheSPARCstation ZX is agraphical workstation produced bySun Microsystems and launched on July 5, 1993, as part of theSPARCstation family. The original price wasUS$19,995 (equivalent to $44,564 in 2025) (equivalent to $44,564 in 2025).[3]
The SPARCstation ZX was identical to theSPARCstation LX, with the addition of a Sun ZX (also known as LEO) accelerated 3Dframebuffer card. This was a double-width, double-deckedSBus card providing24-bit color and a performance of 440,000 3D vectors per second and 275,000 triangle mesh/second, when coupled with the SPARCstation ZX.[2][4] It was intended to compete chiefly withSilicon Graphics and theirIndigo workstation,[3] with Sun claiming that the SPARCstation ZX outperformed the latter's Indigo XS/24 in terms of triangle mesh/second (275,000 versus 50,000).[5]
