[rescue] WTB: SGI

[Joshua D. Boyd]

I just read that paper.  I had a question.  A two TE machine has nearly a
gigaflop of transformation power.  So, does this mean that a G4 can
transform more geometry in software than an Impact can in hardware?
Further, since a well written rasterizer doesn't do a lot of over draw
(think Quake, which rarely draws a pixel more than once), that means that
the ideal rasterizer scales linearly with CPU speed. =20

Time to get out the quake benchmarks ;)

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Joshua Boyd

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, [iso-8859-1] Bj=F6rn Ramqvist wrote:

> Dooh! In my insane way of handling workduty between reading this list, I
> actually screwed things up. Raster Engines (RE) in this case is just
> responsible for pixel-fills, where Texture Engines (TE) actually do the
> texture handling.
> Nevermind. Read a good article regarding I^2 vs Octane Impact graphics
> instead:
> http://www.reputable.com/impact.txt
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> And if you want a serious comparisation between the actual system:
> http://www.futuretech.vuurwerk.nl/octncomp.html
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> /Bjorn, still needing caffeine
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> Bj=F6rn Ramqvist wrote:
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> > Dave McGuire wrote:
> > >
> > > On June 18, nick at snowman.net wrote:
> > > > I've seen an SI octane for 1195 or so, 195mhz 256 or 512meg.  Only =
place
> > > > the i2 beats it is textureing, and pick up a tex module for 875/2 (=
someone
> > > > was selling two brand new octane tex modules for 875, gah I need
> > > > cash).  Once that is done kiss the i2 g'bye.
> > >
> > >   Nope, sorry Nick...benchmarks say otherwise.  See below.  Reprinted
> > > from http://www.futuretech.vuurwerk.nl/gfxtables.html.  Granted I'm
> > > comparing I2 MaxImpact with OctaneSI (the equivalent of SolidImpact)
> > > but the I2 MaxImpact goes for $800 and the OctaneSI goes for $1100-12=
00.
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> > Ofcourse, you can't compare an I^2 MaxImpact (which is maxed out with
> > 1/4MB TRAM, 2GEs and 2 REs) with a pure Solid Impact Octane (which have
> > no TRAM, only 1 GE and 1 RE). That's like comparing apples with pears!
> > :-)
> > Even if you put 1 or 4 MB TRAM on the Octane/SI, you're still limited
> > with just one RE, which explain the benchmarks.
> > Compare I^2 MaxImpact with Octane/MXI and you're definitly comparing
> > apples with apples. :-)
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> > But then again, price-wise that will blow a hole in your wallet.
> > If you want to do even more studies between the systems, things like
> > memory-limits, I/O-subsystems, expansion, etc, etc, should be in count
> > and I'm confident that GIO-64 (Indigo2) won't last long in competition
> > with XIO (Octane).
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> > So, we all can be pretty sure about two things;
> > If you need texture/3D: go for Indigo2 MaxImpact
> > If you need anything else: go for Octane/SI
> > ...right? :-)
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> > /Bjorn
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