| From: | Bo Simmons |
| Date: | 17 Aug 2000 at 20:42:44 |
| Subject: | Re: G3 & CGFX |
Hi David
On 17-Aug-00, you wrote:
> Hi Steffen;
>
>> currently for 3D applications. Chip-Fillrate (of the Permedia 2 Boards)
>> is. And there the Mediator will probably mean a big improvement. A Voodoo
>> 3 is WAYS faster than a Permedia 2 there.
>
> How much faster are we talking. I don't want to pin you down to
> giving figures when you don't even have the hardware :)) for instance
> say a scene in heretic 2 is reaching 15 fps in 640x480 on the permedia
> 2, will the Voodoo 3 do 30fps ? I'm just wondering how dramatic the
> difference will be.
A double in fps will not be enough here, as it would only give me about 16
fps in Heretic II (unacceptable), only at 8fps now...
Greetz
Bo
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