Wow, that is pricey but it looks like this board was geared toward the professional graphics market when it was introduced. It has some amazing specs (from the Big Book of Hardware):
The Vivid 24 is a Zorro III parallel multi-processor graphics card capable of doing 160,000 polygons/sec, 25,000 shaded polygons/sec and 40 FLOPS per graphics processor up to a maximum of 160MFLOPS. The graphics processor also features a 3D vector support rendering engine. The video memory on board can also be used as standard Amiga memory for running applications. Various expansion kits were available for the Vivid 24 including:
* A Single graphics coprocessor upgrade kit, (1 x TMS 34082) with 128K of 32bit static RAM. (Max 2 per card)
* Double graphics coprocessor upgrade kit ( 2 x TMS 34082) with 256K of 32bit static RAM. (Max 2 per card)
* Video Memory Upgrade - 4MB VRAM (Max 4 per card, or 3 with video encoder)
* Program memory upgrade kit - 4MB DRAM
* Broadcast quality digital video encoder (NTSC, PAL, SVHS)
* Allows high resolution graphics to be recorded directly to video tape.
* Genlocks the Vivid 24 using either sync generator or any external video source
* Video Effects Generator
* Provides input for two video sources
* Special Effects
* Allows the mixing of both sources based on the Vivid 24 computer generated graphics.
