[rescue] O2 graphics compared to entry-level Octane graphics?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:57:24AM -0700, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:

> Yeah... the long lost texture option for extreme... Etreme does not do
> texture in hardware, period. SI can do 1/4MB of texture. But it will still
> pale in comparison with the texturing in the o2

The octane has a tremendous amount of bus bandwidth (remeber, he asked about
octane SI, not I^2 SI).  I wonder how well it could stream textures.  That
would still require some size TRAM, but it wouldn't limit you to only
the TRAM sizes amount of textures in a scene.

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Joshua D. Boyd